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FRED VAN ORMAN 
President 1909-1910 H. M. M. B. A. 



THE 1910 TRIP 



OF THE 



H. M. M. B. A. 



TO 



CALIFORNIA AND THE 
PACIFIC COAST 



BY 



GEORGE WHARTON JAMES 

AUTHOR OF 

In and Around the Grand Canyon," "In and Out of the Old Missions of California, 

" The Indians of the Painted Desert Region," "The Story of Scraggles," "The 

Wonders of the Colorado Desert," "What the White Race May Learn 

from the Indian," "Through Ramona's Country," "The Grand 

Canyon of Arizona," "The Heroes of California," 

"Traveler's Handbook to Southern California," 

"The California Birthday Book," "A 

Tribute to Charles Warren 

Stoddard," etc., etc. 



1911 

Press of Bolte & Braden Company 

50 Main Street 

San Francisco 





JOHX S. MITCHELL. THE NEW PRESIDENT. 



A man well developed, mentally and physi- 
callv, strong in everv sense, is the new pre:si- 
dent of the H. M. M. B. A. He would be an 
acquisition for any insurance organization, 
even foi' the largest and most influential of 
the old liners, who are in the habit of paying 
from $25,000 to $75,000 for a president. And 
the H. M. M. B. A. secured him through the 
unanimous vote of its members who met in 
Los Angeles on Tuesday. April 12, 1910. But 
U' Mr. Mitchell is strong in a business sense, 
lie is equally prominent socially and civically. 
for he looks far outside of his own. immediate 
surroundings in which to find a field for his 
at tivities. 

Some years ago Mr. Mitchell was promi- 
nently engaged in business in Arizona. Later 
he became interested in the Hollenbeck Hotel, 
and when Mr. Bilicke's interests about the city 
grew and increased, and the Alexandria Hotel 
was built. Mr. Mitchell took control of the 
Hollenbeck as managing proprietor, though 
Mr. Bilicke still retains his interests. Since 
this happened the Hollenbeck has been en- 



larged, taking in other T)uildings; it now has 
about 500 rooms, with 250 private baths. Only 
recently $50,000 was expended upon the hotel. 
Tlie Hollenbeck is to Los Angeles what the 
Palmer House is in Chicago, or the Fifth Ave- 
nue used to he to New York. In its present 
hands it will ever be a clean, respectable, mod- 
erate-priced hotel, and perhaps the biggest 
dividend maker in the city. 

Mr. Mitchell is a line type of the men who 
liave given true values to California — honestj , 
solidity, permanence. He is a hotelman. but 
much besides: he takes the greatest interest 
in the business and commerce of his city, is 
identified with the commercial and civic organ- 
izations, and hi^ altruistic efforts are as posi- 
tive as those which pertain to his own busi- 
ness. Civic improvement, educational matters, 
the development of the things that make a 
city not alone great, but progressive, clean 
and cultured, secure his best thought and 
effort. 

His election has added to the strength and 
permanency of the organization. 






HOW IT CAME ABOUT 



The visit of the 11. .M. M. I'.. A. to California and the L'acihc Coast in 
AjM-il, 1910. is the second time the Land of the Sundo\\'n Sea has been 
honored by the presence of the bonifaces of the East, North. South and 
West. In 1895. fifteen years ago, the organization voted unanimously, and 
with enthusiasm, to \isit California. George W. Lynch. A. C. liilicke, 
-M. A. Dudley, and the \\riter formed a committee sent East to extend 
the invitation, which was accepted. Fourteen years ago, in three special 
trains, this acceptance was made operative, and for fifteen days the leading 
towns of the Pacific Coast rang to the merry voices of the H. M. M. P>. .\. 
excursionists, and the clarion notes of Tom Henry's cornet. .., 

The promises made b}- the writer when the in\itation was extend'ed 
were more than kept, ami at the Farew ell ! at the Oakland ]\Iolc. there was 
an increase rather than a decrease of enthusiastic appreciation. It was 
then that the writing of a book descriptive of the trip was suggested, and 
the pleasant task fell into ni}- hands. 

The 1910 trip, as was that of 1896, was ])lanneil by the Southern Cali- 
fornia Motel Association, under the presidency of John S. i\Iitchell. of the 
Hollenbeck and the Alexandria. Hut, as is well known in our State, ami 
growing to be well known throughout the country. California is a unit 
in working for its own welfare, and. therefdre. the C.'alifornia Hotel Asso- 
ciation, of San b'rancisco. was asked to join with the Southern California 
Hotel Association in extending the invitation, exactly as the}' did on the 
former occasion. Although .San Francisco was still working strenuinisly 
to completely recover from the disastrous efl:'ects of the tragedy of 1906, 
she responded with her usual cordiality and vim. and the result was the 
invitation was extended by the two associations that the annual meeting 
be held in Los Angeles in 1910. and entertainment be extended throughout 
the State to San Francisco. The in\-itation was duly acce])ted, and we 
have \ct to hear oi one jierson who has regretted it. The results, better 
than anv words of mine, show how successfully e\erythir,g was done. 
Nothing was forgotten, no one was ignored. e\-eryone and cxerything was 
attended to. so that the ]5rogram went through without a hitch. 



Pasadena, Cal.. September 





EDWARD M. TIERNEY, HOTEL MARLBOROUGH, NEW YORK, 



CHAPTER I 

OUR GUESTS FROM THE EAST 

Three specially appointed trains, the finest the various railway companies 
could provide, brought our guests from the East and the ]\liddle West to 
enjoy our hospitality. There was the New York Special, the New England 
Special and the Chicago Special. 

THE NEW YORK SPECIAL 

The following account of the New York train was written by Charles E. 
Gehring. of the "New York Hotel Review": 

'Twas the afternoon of the fourth of April in the year of Our Lord 
Nineteen Hundred and Ten, and the rain — well it was raining the proverbial 
cats and dogs, with a few mastodons and dinosauri thrown in to make the 
measure full. It was a day to dampen the spirits of even a newly love- 
smitten ])air, but there was no room for applying any kind of a damper to 
the temperaments of the metropolitan travelers westward. Their enthusiasm, 
intensified by their anticipations of the wondrous things which the original 
and only McCann had in store, raised their spirits and added zest to their 
final preparations. Still, the miserable weather kept away many who had 
intended to be present to bid their friends good-bye. As it was, among 
those \\ho braved the elements and saw the party off at the Jersey City 
station of the New Jersey Central Railroad were Mr. George W. Sweeney, 
of the \'ictoria ; Mr. Walter Hildrcth. of the Breslin ; Mark Cadwell, secre- 
tary of the \ew York City Association, and Herman Mergenthaler, now 
the son-in-law of the X'ictoria's proprietor, Dr. A\'alter Gilday. Of course, 
there was the usual hustle and bustle and the customary excitement, but in 
good time all who had obtained reser\-ations "ciualified," and the train, the 
finest \vhich has ever graced the tracks of the Jersey Central, or almost 
any other road, for that matter, rolled out of the terminal, to the waved 
and shd'ited adieus and "giKlspeeds" of those whom circumstances forced 
to remain behind. 

At Philadelphia, Mr. Hayes, of Carstairs, added a liberal quantity of 
really gond "Inljricant" to the (.quipment of the baggage car. .\t Wash- 
ington, another short stop was made, and the train was boarded for a few 
moments by a delegation of the hotelmcn of the capital city, headeil by 
Mr. De\ine, to whose forethought and gallantry the hulies in the i)arty 
owed handsome ])ou<|uets of roses. Chattanooga, where last year's con- 
vention was held, was reached the following day. Here the train was met 
In- Mr. and Mrs. Alexander and Ibuiston Harper, of the Patten, and Mr. 
Samuel Read, of the Read House, who succeeded handsomely in making 
pleasant the verv brief stay of the delegation in their new and beautiful 
union station. 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 




Claude x\ tt — N ite the gait. 



•Mr. Tit.-nie\" ;iiiil ladies 
Salt LaI.e City. 



at II r. and Jlr.s. E. .1. I-'leming. 




Mr. and Mrs. Julius D. 
Mahr and Charles F. Lar- 
zalere. 



Thunias Hilliard. 



C. S. Welirle. ill ilif center, 
Miss Wehrle to the left, Mrs. 
Wehrle to the right. 



TO CALIFORXIA AXD THP: PACIFIC COAST -.1 

Train Orgsnized Like a Small Hotel 

Sliiirtly after ilic train k ft Xew York those aljoard were apprised of 
the fact that tlure was to be some system about the trip — no irksome 
restrictions, but just a few rcjjulatioiis having to do with the greatest good 
for the greatest number. I'or instance, the hours for nitals taken aboard 
tlie train were set ior each ])assenger. Call hours were, of course, according 
to the wishes of each individual. The rule closing the train at midnight 
was strictly enforced. Ho\ve\'er, these simple limitations of "personal lib- 
erty" met with (|uite unanimous approval, and accordingly the arrangements 
worked out beautifully. 




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Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnson 
Qiiinn and Frank A. K. 
Boland. 



.1. S\veene,\'. official pliotog- 
rapher. 



Henry F. Wood, of tlie 
Empire Laundry, and .John 
McGlynn, of Troy. 



The leaders and spokesmen of the |)art\- were, of course, Alessrs. Tierney 
and Reed, as a result of whose eftorts. and tliose of Joseph 1'. .McCann, 
of McCann"s Tours, the special train plan became a reality. Incidentally, 
too nmch credit can not be given to Mr. McCann. whose arrangements 
were ])ractically perfect. There was m.it a hitch an\\\here. not an accident, 
howsoe\-er slight, not even a hot journal during the entire 7,900 miles, a 
really remarkable thing. Then. too. the railroad officials seemed at all 
times prompted Ijy a determinatidu tij go nut of their way to insure the 
safety and the comfort of the members nf the part}'. Each road traversed 
assigned a passenger agent to accompany the party until he was succeeded 
by the official representative of the next railway, the roads over which the 
Xew York M. M. M. 1!. A. special traveled to Los .Angeles and San l-'ran- 
ciseo being as follows: Xew York to ^^'a<llin<'"ton. Central R. R. of Xew 



10 



THE 1010 TRIP ()F THE H. M. M. W. A. 



Jersey, Philadelphia «Sc Reading, and Baltimore & Ohio. Washington to 
Xew Orleans, Southern R. R., X. & W. R. R.. A. G. S. R. R.. and O. & C. 
Route. Xew Orleans to San Francisco to Denver, Southern Pacific R. R. 
Chicago to Xew York, Lake Shore and Xew York Central. 

In the Crescent City 

Arriving at the Terminal Station in Xew Orleans, the party was met 
bv a committee of local hotelmcn and others, headed hv Mr. Theodore 




Tlie Original Six nt the New Yorl^ Delegation, who visited California 
with the H. M. .M. B. A. in 18 6. Reading from left to right: Charles F. 
I^arzalere, Mrs. Wood, John Burke, E. M. Tiernev, Mrs. Tiernev, Mr. 
Wood. 

Grunewald. of the fine hostelry of that name, and including Russell Blakely. 
St. Charles Hotel, Mrs. Blakely and Miss Blakely; Justin Denechaud, 
Denechaud Hotel; Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Denechaud and Miss Juanita Dene- 
chaud ; Senator Voegtle, Cosmopolitan Hotel ; Zilrs. \'oegtle ; A. V. Mon- 
teleone and J. D. Kennedy, Monteleone Hotel ; Councilman and Mrs. 
O'Connor, Mrs. R. Miller, Charles A. Hartwell, Hart D. Xewman, George 
U'. Dunbar, A. A. Aschaffenberg, A. J. Gelpi, T. Tranchina, Councilman 
John Frawley, Councilman Thomas Cunningham and Mr. Mayer. 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 



11 



At the Filtration Plant 

Those who joined the ]iarty at the filtration plant were City Attorney 
I. I). Moore and Miss Moore, and Superintendent Earl, of the Water and 
Sewerai^e Board. Mr. Earl personally conducted the visitors ahout the 
big purification ])lant. Superintendent Earl was assisted by Mr. J. L. Porter, 
engineerini;- chemist, in conducting the party about the plant. A buffet 
luncheon was served in the pumping station, and some enthusiastic official, 
proud of the city water, ventured to oft'er it as a substitute for Roederer 
champagne. It was plainly the sentiment of the gathering, however, that 
no matter how fine the waters of the Mississippi, when scientifically filtered, 
might lie for drinking purposes, it was indeed a daring thing for an\- one to 




The "Fig Four" of the New York Special. From left to right; Chas. E. Gehring, FreJ 
A. Reed, K. M. Tlerney, Joseph .J. McCann. 

make comparisons between the aforesaid a(|ua pura and so delightful a 
beverage as Roederer's, which, b}- the way, was enjoyed by the party at 
every point visited in the Southwest. I failed to meet the local Roederer 
rejireseiitative, but he must have been "on the job" eft'ectivelw 



On the Mississippi River 

It was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon when the party returned to the 
St. Charles Hotel. Only a short stop was made. The Easterners were 
again taken in automobiles and whirled away to the Canal street landing, 
where the steamer "[. S." was boarded. 



12 



THE 1910 TRir OF THE H. .M. M. \i. A. 



Mayor Behrman inade an address of welconu- that was decidedl\- out 
of the ordinary. He did not merely say. "Glad-U-Kiim," but compHniented 
the visitors on the compHment they had paid Xew Orleans by making that 
city the first stop. 

In response to the Mayor's address, Mr. Ticrney said it was not his first 
visit to Xew Orleans, and he referred with much feeling to the late Andrew 
Blakeley, who was the proprietor of the old St. Charles Hotel when Mr. 
Tierney previously visited Xew Orleans. 

The big feature of the stay at Xew Orleans was the luncheon served, 
under the personal direction of Manager Gaston .Saux, of the Grunewald. 
on the Steamer "J. S." during a sail on the Mississippi. This was quite 
an acconiiilishment, the various dishes having been prepared with ver\- 




IlMtel .St. Antllon> . Sicn .Antoiiin. Texas. 



inaile(|uatc conking facilities, notwithstanding which fact, those which were 
supi.osed to be hot were actually served so. It was remarked by all of the 
members that it was the most typical "Southern" menu thev had ever had 
the pleasure of sitting down to enjoy, and it was otherwise most favnrablv 
commented upon, especially in \iew of the short time it took to serve this 
nual. The one hundred and thirty-five guests were all seated at 2:20, and 
were through at 3:4.^. At 4 o'clock all of the tables were cleared and put 
aside to make room for dancing, tpiite a feat in the line of expeditious 
service. 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST i;', 

"Jack" Letton and Ed. Racine on Hand 

In the tvcning- the party were entertainetl at dinner at the Grunewald, 
after which a few hours were spent as individual tastes dictated. A pleasing 
feature was the presence of Mr. John 1-". Letton, of the Bentley. in .\le.\an- 
dria. who had traveled one hundred and eighty miles just to spend an hour 
or twii with the Easterners. We also had the pleasure of the company 
of Mr. Ed. 11. Racine, of Meridian. [Miss. The train left at 10 o'clock in 
the evening, the Xew Yorkers just before their departure entertaining their 
hosts in the "library" car. 

Short, But Pleasant Stop in Beaumont 

Beaumont, Te.xas. was reached early the following morning. Onlv a 
brief stop was made at that point, the train being met by Mr. Been, of the 
Crosby House, and a committee representing the Chamber of Commerce, 
who overwhelmefl the Easterners with flowers. .-V rather pleasant surprise 
was furnished in the way of an auto completely covered with floral decora- 
tions, which unfortunately made its appearance only as the train was leaving 
the station, so that the party merely had a glimpse of it. While the 
Beaumont stop was being made. [Mrs. C. .\. Hagerman presented the party 
with a handsome hammered brass flower basket filled with roses, suggesting 
that it be presented to the lady who succeeded in guessing the number of 
flowers. This gift subsequently became the property of Miss Oaks, daughter 
of the proprietor of the Kenmore Hotel in Alban_\', N. Y. 

Swearingens, of San Antonio, Make Big Hit 

It was at the Sunset Depot in San Antonio that the ne.xt stop was 
made, the train arriving at 6 in the evening and the members of the partv 
being met by a delegation of local bote hue n. That night the guests were 
treated to one of the finest bancpiets of the entire trip. Messrs. F. M. and 
Byron S. Swearingen had taken excellent advantage of this opportunitv to 
demonstrate to their visitors that San Antonio could boast of first-class, 
up-to-date hotel facilities, under the direction of men who also knew Imw 
to serve a large and elaborate banquet. 

Mr. Walter 1'. Xajjier was toastmaster and speeches were made Ii\- 
Mayor liryan Callaghan, E. M. Tierney, F'red A. Reed, ]•". M. Swearingen 
and Charles E. Gehring. Each one of the speakers complimented the 
.Swearingens ujKjn their magnificent hotel and the fine banquet which they 
had just served. These compliments were more than empty nothin<>'s, 
uttered to be in harmony with the occasion and to do the right thing by a 
generous host, .^s a matter of fact, the Hotel St. .\nthonv. to which a 
large addition has just been made, is doing an enormous business. It 
requires only a few moments' talk for one to be convinced that the elder 
Swearingen is a man of real business genius, and it is also plain that in 
his son Byron he has very able support. The management had arran"ed 



14 THE I'UO TKll' OF THE H. M. M. 1!. A. 

for coffee ami an enlcrtaiiimont in the roof garden, but this was prevented 
l)_v rain. A delii^httiil diversion was furnished, however, by an informal 
celebration of the nineteenth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. 
John W. liutler. The fact had kaked out during the day and accordingh' 
an arrangement was made with the orchestra to have it play Lohengrin's 
Wedding March in tlie midst of its formal program. This was the signal 
for a toast, in which, it is needless to add. the entire party joined with 
avidity. During the course of the evening the ladies of the party were 
the recipients of pretty fans in the center of each of which was a large 
photograph of the St. Anthony, while the men were presented with neat 
watch fobs bearing a beautiful raised crest of the hotel and also with 
morocco card case bearing the inscription. "Compliments of the St. Anthonv." 

Points of Interest — At the Gunter 

The night was spent at the St. Anthony, whence, after breakfast the 
next morning, the party assembled at the .\lamo. where they were met by 
hotel men and other citizens, by whom they were conducted in autos 
around the Mission Loop, visiting Missions Concepcion. San Jose and San 
Juan, with a stop at Hot Sulphur \\'ells, a beautiful spot with a fine hotel, 
for luncheon. This was the favorite stopping place of the late E. H. 
Harriman. the railroad king, who often encamped in a tent on the Hot 
Wells grounds, and who, in 1909. wrote Manager J. E. Cockorell a very 
complimentary opinion of the place. The drive was then continued through 
the city to Fort Sam Houston, one of the largest army posts in America. 
At 1 o'clock the delegation were the guests of H. H. Franks and the 
Gunter Hotel Company, where they were given their first glimpse of "A 
Trip to Mexico." In addition to the Mexican Milage and other scenes of 
that country, portrayed with no regard for expense, a Mexican vaudeville 
show and a complete ^lexican dinner was served. Speeches were delivered 
by Messrs. Weber. Tierney, Reed. Fleming. Bain. F. X. Swearingen and 
Gehring. All the ladies were presented with souvenirs, silver-lined bronze 
cups with raised fig^ires of the various missions and a small Mexican basket 
filled with candy. A handsome hand-carved and vari-colored cane was the 
favor presented to the men of the party. A typically ^lexican luncheon, 
"Meritnda Mexicana Dada." was served at the Gunter. (The best transla- 
tion of the menu which the writer can give is "hot stuff." Evervbody 
enjoyed it : as we did the St. Antonio brew with which we frequentlv 
i|uenched our parched tongues.) 

Spanish Dinner at the Menger 

The closing event in San Antonio was a "Comida Espanola " in the 
quaint and beautiful Hotel Menger. where Manager Bruce, an able and 
thoroughly progressive hotelman. had intended to ser\e the dinner in the 
patio of the hotel, which had been magnificentlj- and most originallv deco- 
rated at great expense. Here again, however, rain interfered with the 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE I'ACIFIC COAST 15 

plans and it was therefore necessary to serve the meal inside the hotel. 
Aigain the writer is at a loss to translate the menu, but it may be said 
for it that all whu sat at Mr. liruce's hospitable board enjoyed the dinner 
to its fullest measure and highly praised his excellent service. Mr. Tierney 
expressed the thank you of the delegation and Mr. Bruce responded grace- 
fully in a few well chosen words. 

The hotelmen of the city accompanied their visitors to the train where 
they, in their turn, were royalh- entertained, the Xew Yorkers doing the 
honors to the king's taste. There were music, fireworks, etc. (particularly 
"etc."). and just before the train drew out of the station on its way to 
El Paso an in\itation was unanimously tendered by the San .Antonio hotel- 
men to have any or all of the party as their guests at any time in the future. 
It w^as at San .\ntonio that .Mr. H. H. Franks, the enterprising manager of 
the Gunter. joined the party to attenfl the convention at Los .\ngeles. 

This is th? list of the Xcw York delegation : 

Mr. F. X. Hain. Xewburgh, X. Y. : Mrs. G. D. Bayard, Xew York: .Mr. 
Frank A. K. Boland, Xew York; Mrs. S. G. Boyce, Mountain View, X. Y. ; 
Miss G. G. Iloyce, Mountain View. X. Y. : Miss Ella J- Brown, Tuckahoe, 
.X. Y. ; Mr. John Burke, Xew York; Mr. John W. Butler. Xew York; Mrs. 
John A\'. Butler, Xew York; Mr. C. A. Carrigan, Xew York; Mrs. C. A. 
Carrigan, Xew York; Dr. M. R. Grain. Rutland. \'t. ; Mrs. Dr. ^I. R. Grain, 
Rutland. \'t. ; Mr. Alex C. Eustace. Elmira. X. Y. ; Mr. Chas. E. Gehring, 
-Xew York; ^Ir. \\'m. Gordon, F'ishkill-on-Hudson, X'. Y. ; ^Irs. W. O. 
Graham, Xew York; Mr. H. C. Griswold, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. H. C. 
Griswold, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mr. Fred L. Hall, ^laplewood, X. IL; Mrs. 
Fred L. Hall, Maplewood, X. H. ; Mr. Paul Halpin, Xew York; Mr. Frank 
Halpin. Xew York; Mr. Thos. M. Milliard. .Xew York; !Mrs. Henry .A.. 
Hurlbut. Xew York; ;\Ir. Chas. D. Johnston, Richwood. W. \'a. ; Dr. .A. V. 
Jova. Newburgh. X. Y. ; Mr. Lawrence R. Kerr. Xew York; Mrs. Lawrence 
R. Kerr. Xew York; Mr. David H. Knott, Xew York; Mr. Chas. F. Lar- 
zelere, Xew York; ^Ir. J. E. Leech. Xew York; ^Ir. \\"m. Lindenbach, 
Buffalo. X. Y. ; Mrs. Wm. Lindenbach. Buffalo, X. Y. ; Mr. I'red Loughran, 
Fishkill-on-Hudson, X. Y. ; Mr. J. P.. Lunney, \\'ashingtonville. .\". Y. : ^Ir. 
J. P. McCann. Xew York; Mrs. J. P. McCann, Xew York; .Mr. S. Mc- 
Cullough, Hartford, Conn.; Miss F. L. McDonald, Binghamton, X. Y, ; 
Mr. John McGlynn, Troy. X. Y. ; Mrs. T. A. :\IcKee. Washington, D. C. ; 
Mr. Julius D. Mahr, Xew York; Mrs. Julius D. Mahr, Xew York; Mr. Joseph 
G. Mason, Xew York; Mr. I'rank .\. Merrall. Xew York; Mr. F>ed H. Meyer, 
Xew Haven, Conn.; Mr. C. R. Xott. Xew York; Mr. D. J. O'Mara, Mariner's 
Harbor. X. Y. ; Mr. J. A. ( )aks, .\lbany, X. Y. : Mrs. J. A. Oaks, .\lbany, X. Y. ; 
Miss Marguerite Oaks, .Albany, X. Y. ; iliss Gertrude Oaks, Albany, X. Y. ; 
Mr. ^^'. Johnson Quinn. Xew York; ^Irs. \\'. Johnson Quinn, X'ew York; 
Mr. Fred .\. Reed, Xew York ; Mrs. Fred A. Reed. Xew York ; Mr. \V. A. 
Reist, York, Pa.; Mrs. \\'. .\. Reist. York. Pa.; Mr. James Runciman, Xew 



16 THE 1910 TRir OF THE H. M M. I'. A. 

York; Mrs. James Runciman, Xew York; JMr. (). C Russell, New York; AIi. 

C. R. Sandstedt, Xew York; Air. G. F. Schutt, Washington, D. C. ; Air. and 
Airs. Edward F. Fleming, Philadelphia, Pa.; Airs. G. F. Schutt, Washington, 

D. C. ; Air. \\'m. H. Seaich, Xew York; Airs. Wm. H. Seaich, Xew York; Air. 
Harr\- W. Smith, Emporium, Fa.; Air. Jas. H. Sweeny, Port Jervis, X. Y. ; 
Air. J.ihn \\'. Sweeny, Port Jervis, X. Y. ; Air. Edward Al. Tierney. Xew York; 
Airs. Edward Al. Tierney. Xew Y' irk ; Aliss Genevieve E. Tierney. Xew York; 
Air. E. Al. Tierney, Jr., Xew York; Air. Wm. H. \'aliquette, Xew York; 
Aliss Al. E. Valiquttte, Xew York; Airs. Alar}- E. \\'agner, Xew York; Aliss 
Alay C. ^^'agner, Xew York; Alaster W. E. A\'agner, Xew York; Airs. E. B. 
Washliiirn, Xew York; Air. C. S. ^\'ehrle, Stamford, Conn.; Airs. C. S. 
\Yehrle. Stamford, Conn.; Aliss Lillie \\'ehrle, Stamford, Conn.; Airs. E. W. 
Wheeler, Washington, D. C. : Dr. Percy Al. Williams, Rutland, \'t. ; Airs. 
Percy Al. Williams, Rutland, \'t. ; Air. Henry 1-. Wood, Xew York; Airs. 
Henr}- F. \\'ood, Xew York; Airs. Theodore F. Wood, Xew York; Aliss 
Theodora Wood. X'ew York; Air. .A. \". \\'right, Washingtonville, X. ^'. 



THE NEW ENGLAND SPECIAL 

The personnel of the part\- was as follows : 

Air. and Airs. Claude Al. Hart, Hotel Touraine, I'-osloii ; Airs. L. E. Al. 
Porter, Hotel Touraine, Boston; Mr. ( )li\xr J. Pclren. Eagle Hotel, Concord, 
X. FF; Air. Harry J. Pelren. Eagle Hotel, Concord. .\. IF; Air. James H. 
Bowker, Winthrop Flotel, Aleriden. Ct. ; Air. Harr\- L. I'.rown, Hotel \"ic- 
toria, Boston; Airs. H. A. Brown, Hotel A'ictoria, Bo.-ton ; Air. and Airs. 
Charles ^\'. Parker, Xew England House, Boston: Air. and Airs. ]. Finfield 
Damon. Jr., Hotel Thorndike. Boston; Alaster Sherman Damon, Hotel 
Thorndike, Boston; Airs. W. 11. Sherman, Hotel Thorndike, Boston; Air. 
and Airs. Wm. ^\'. Davis, Ri\erbank Court Hotel, Cambridge; Air. and Airs. 
( ;. E. Ricker, Hotel \\'oodbridge, \\'. Somerville : Airs. X. E. Philbrook, Hotel 
Woodbridgc, W. Somerville; Air. W. L. Birely, Siiuth Station Restaurant, Bos- 
ton: Air. Geo. \\'. Clark, X'ew .American House, Pittsfield, Alass. ; Air. George 
E.Hall, XewAmeri:an House. Pittsfield, Alass. ; Air. E. L. Alorandi, Boston ; 
Air. and Airs. John A. Bond, \\'ilson House, X. .Adams, Alass.; Col. Frank 
S. Richardson, Wilson House, X. Adams, Alass.; Airs. E. .A. Fowder, Hotel 
Hollis, Boston; Air. J. Henry Breslin, Hampton Hotel, Boston; Airs. 
Catherine Breslin, Hampton Hotel. Boston; Aliss AIaI)el !•". Breslin, Hamp- 
ton Hotel, Boston; Aliss Ellen .\. Lyons, Hampton Hotel, Boston; Air. 
.A. D. Bell, The Chalfonte, Atlantic City. X. J.; Air. and Airs. C. T. Shean, 
Kind;all House, Springfield, Alass.; Air. H. C. Lange. Park Square Hotel. 
Westfield, Alass.; Air. and Airs. Theodor Lange, Springfield, Alass.; Miss 
Margaretha Seuss, Springfield, Alass.; Air. and Airs. George W. Childs. 



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JJoston : Mr. J. C. lUand. Waiircnaii I louse, Norwich, Ct. ; Dr. P. II. Har- 
riman. Xnrwich. Ct. ; Rlw W. A. Kcefc, Norwich, Ct. : Mr. Charles A. 
Chafee, Chafee's Motel, AlidtUetown, Ct. ; Mr. L. C. Thayer, lioston ; Mr. 
and Airs. D. L. linrbank. North .\tlams. Mass.: Mr. William M. Kimball. 
Kimball House. Springfitld, Alass. ; Mr. Curtis W". Scriven. iloston; Mr. 
and Mrs. F. T, Grant, Boston & Maine R. R., Boston; Rev, Dr. W. H. 
Ryder, (jloucester, Alass. ; Mr. and Mrs. Luke J. Alinahan, Hotel ^Vendell. 
Pittsfield; Air, Felix Smith. I'.oston; Mr, Felix Smith, Jr,, Boston; Air, and 





Hurry L. Brown, Hotel Victoria, 
Boston, Mass. 



Hiin. Williiun W. Davis, manager of 
the Riverljanli Court Hotel, Boston, an 
ex-president of the H. il. M. B. A. and 
secretar.v of transportation for the New- 
England delegation, was for years prom- 
inent in city and state government. 



Airs. R. A. Perkins, Boston; Air. Thomas A. Murray, I'.righani's Hotel. 
Bostmi; Air. and Airs, lienj. S. Palmer, Chase & Sanborn, I'.oston; Charles 
P. ^\^.M,l\vorth, Hotel Alossilank, Breezy P'oint, Maine; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. 
Alanning. Santa I'e R. R,, Boston. 

This palatial train was under the control of the following : 

General Committee — Harry L. Bi-own, Chairman; J. Linticld Damon, Jr., 

Treasurer; William W. Davis, Secretary; James H. Bovvker, Charles W, 

Parker, Oliver J. Pelren, L. C. Thayer, George W. Ricker, E. L. Alorandi, 

[, Henrv Breslin, Claude AI. Hart. W. M, Kimball, L. J. Minahan. George 



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A. 



^^'. Clark. Thomas A. .Murray. Transportation Committee — Harry L. 
Brown, ^^'illiam W. Davis. J. Linfield Damon. Jr. Supply Committee — 
William \\'. Davis. Charles W. Parker, L. C. Thayer. Hotels and Baggage — 
William ^^'. Davis. Thomas A. Murra\-. Captain of Train — Harry L. Brown. 



On Thursday. April 7th. the New England section were entertained by a 
committee of the Kansas City Hotelmen headed by T'rank P. Ewins. ex- 
President of the H. M. M. B. A. Automobiles were provided and the whole 
party were given a two hours' drive through almost the whole of Kansas 
City's splendid resident and boulevard district, taking in the famous Cliff 




"The Kids" on the t:^pecial. 

Drive and arriving at the Hotel Baltimore in ample time to dispose of a 
luncheon before train time. This luncheon was arranged for by the ^Missouri 
and Kansas Hotel Men's Association, and added much to the enjoyment of 
the guests en route. 

After a few days on the train, a very agreeable and pleasant party of 
young people were brought together. The "Kids" they were called, all being 
unmarried and forming the young element of the party. Harry Pelerin, 
whose father runs the Eagle House in Concord, X. H.. Charlie W'oodworth 
of Breezy Point. Maine, J- Plenry Breslin, proprietor of the Hampton House, 
Boston, Miss Breslin, his sister. Miss Lyons, a friend of Miss Breslin. Miss 



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Sliean, whose father is cunnected with the Xew Kimball House. Springfield, 
and Tom ]\Iurray, of the firm of M. J. Murray & Co.. proprietors and man- 
agers of llrigham's Hotel, made up the party. On most of their trips, 
theater ]iarties. dinners, etc.. Mrs. Ilrcslin and Miss Fowler, of the Hotel 
Ilollis, were the chaperons. 

.■\t Chicago they had their first party, taking in the Show and having 
dinner at the Auditorium Annex. 

At Los Angeles they had many pleasant times together visiting the 
cafes and seeing the city, when not engaged in the wonderful entertainment 
ofl'cred bv the Southern California Hotel Men's Association. 




■THE SOLID THREE," FRO.M NORWICH, COXX. 



Rev. William A. Keefe was born in Water- 
l>ui\-. CunTi.. in 1S7T. He was educated in the 
public ."ichouls of Waterbury. Hol.v Cross Col- 
lege. Worcester. Mass.. the Grand Seminary, 
Montreal, and the Uniyersity of Louyain. Bel- 
giuin. He is at present located at Norwich. 
Conn. Father Keefe is a talented pulpit orator. 
and speaks French and Italian fluently. He is 
also a progressiye and interesting public 
sjieaker. and an ardent and enthusiastic niein- 
l.er of the Knight.s of Columbus. He was a 
nuist welcome addition to the New England 
contingent of the H. M. M. B. A. 

Joseph C. Bland was born in Ireland. July 
1. 1873. At an early age he came to this coun- 
try, and located at North Attleboro. Mass. 
Since boyhood, Mr. Bland has followed the 
hotel business, and by persistent efforts has 
arisen from bell-boy to his present position as 
manager of the W^auregan House. N'>rwich 



Conn. .Mr. Bland has been connected with the 
Parker-Dayenport Company for oyer twenty- 
fice years. He is an a<tiye and progressiye 
member of the H. M. M. B. A., and the New 
England H. M. A. 

Patrick Henry Harriman, M. D., was born at 
Calais. Maine. March 17. 1860. Receiyed his 
early education in the public school at Winch- 
endon. Mass.. and at Holy Cross College. Wor- 
cester. Mass. His medical training was 
secured at Dartmouth and the Uniyersity of 
the Citv of New York. Graduating from the 
latter institution in March. ISSI. Soon after 
recei\ing his degree, in medicine, he located 
at Norwich. Conn., and has continued in actiye 
prai-tice since that time. 

In politics, the doctor has always been a 
consistent Democrat, and has held seyeral 
Tiolitical offices. He is also deeply interested 
ir social societies, and is a member of the 
Elks and the Knights of CohDnbus. 



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HKXFIY J. BCiHX, 



Joint proprietor of the " Hotel World." 
ChicagL>. member of the board of trustees of 
the H. M. :\[. E. A., attendant of almost every 
meeting ( if not every one) of the association 
since its incepti->n. captain of the Chicago 
trains for years, needs no introduction to the 
hotel fraternity of the United State*^, a? 



mentally alert, as he is a good business man. 
he Is one of the most prominent members of 
the ethical society of Chicago. He is a park 
coinmissioner of Morgan Park, where he re- 
sides, and is active and forward in every good 
work that means the general improvement. 



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In San I'rancisco they had a (.klightl'ul time. Chinatown was visited, also 
the famous cafes and business section of the city. They took in the trips, 
that were offered by the San Francisco Hotel Men's Association. The 
"Kids" section of the X. E. Special wore not known to miss a .trip of any- 
kind, and they took in many outside trips themsehes. 

On the way home a \ery enjoyable auto ride was taken in Denver. Col., 
during the evening, and a dinner party in Chicago, with the theater after- 
wards. In Niagara Falls they enjoyed a delightful ride in an auto, visiting 
the many points of interest about the Falls. 

\\'hen the part\- broke up ( iNIiss Shean leaving the train at ( ireentield 
and the rest sejiarating in lioston), many regrets were expressed and prom- 
ises made for a. reunion in the near future. 




The Choir of Car Eleven, Chicago Special. 



THE CHICAGO SPECIAL 

This special Train of seven I'uUmans and compartment cars, with diner, 
well provided bullet, etc., left Chicago on Thursday evening, .\pril 7. 1910. 
Many local hotelinen were present to see the start, among them being 
/\. C. Bilicke. the president nf the Alexandria Hotel Compan}- of Los 
/\ngeles. California, who was on his way to Europe ; Henry \\'. Lawrence, 
proprietor of the Claypool. Indianapolis, and several others. The tVillowing 
is a list of the cars and their occupants: 

CORCORAN 

Mr. and Mrs. George F. Titlow. Hotel Titlow. I'niontown. Pa.; Mr. 
William E. Hawk. Hotel Pindley. lllanchester. Ohio; Mr. Fred Pitney, 
Waldorf-Astoria. New York; Mr. John .A. Lewis. Hotel Jefferson. St. Louis, 
Mo.; Mr. George G. Lippincott, Commercial Club, Marion. Ohio; Mr. F. A. 



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Max L. Teich, The Kaiserhof, Chicago, III. 



Max L. Teich was born Feb. 21. 1873. in Ger- 
many and came to this country in the winter of 
1892-93. He entered the Hotel Eismark, lo- 
cated at 63d and Cottaee (Jrove avenue, next 
to the World's Fair grounds, and stayed there 
until the Fair was over. The company then 
started the Bismark Hotel. ISO Randolph street, 
where he stayed eleven years, after which he 
organized the International Hotel Company 
which bought the property 262-274 South Clark 
street, the location of the Kiserhof, the finest 
and most attractive German restaurant-hotel 
in the west. Mr. Teich was accompanied by 



liis gracious and lovely wife and their charm- 
ing and sweet little daughter, Ella. As Ella 
was born in Chicago. March 9, 1901. this was 
made a delightful birthday trip, coming so 
soon after her ninth birthday. It is needless 
to say she was very happy. Her bright, win- 
ning ways, and her lovable nature made her 
the pet of the train, and when she reached 
California she received more attention than 
many of the very prominent hotel men and 
women of the party. Altogether the Teich 
family were a de'ightful acquisition and they 
made many friends both on the way and in 
California. 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 




IIOX p. F.r.AXHAM 
Ilditor l-lTtel Bulletin. Chirag>, Illinois. 



The ■■ H itel Bulletin " is one of the later 
monthies in the hjtel field, and though only in 
its fourth year already enjoys a considerable 
rner.'^nre of' s-uccess under Mr. Branham's able 
managemer.t. It is the official orgm ( f the 



Natinal Hotel Clerks' Associatiin. Mr. Bran- 
ham's genial manner "nd 1 indly way made 
him miny fiiends on the Ciliforni.i trip. whi> 
all hjd bin in rleastnt re iiembrance. 



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A. M. Clearj-. Exclianst- Hotel, Simix CMt>', Iowa. 



Leavens, Manufacturers' Hotel. .Meiline, 111.: Mr. Walter .\. Poe-eick. Hotel 
Rvan. St. Taul, Miiin.: Mr. C. A. Klaus, The (Gladstone, Janiestown. \. D. ; 
Mr. Carl Eitel, Hotel Bismarck, Chieago; Mr. F. L. Holhrook, Royal Hotel. 
Huron, S. D. ; Geortje T. Gunnip, Santa Fe R. R., Chicago; Mr. \\'illiani 
H. Worth. Hotel Albany. Chicago: Mr. John K. lilatchford. secretary and 
treasurer H. M. M. 1!. A.. Daily National Hotel Reporter. Chicago: Mr.. 
Charles J. Owen. Hotel Radisson. ^linneapolis. Minu. 



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WM. LAIBLIN, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mr. Laiblin is the manager sales department 
of R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company, 
131 Wabash avenue, Chicago. He is a native 
of Germany, having been born in Black For- 
est, October 15, 1S76. He came to the United 
States in 1891, when he was employed in one 
of Chicago's department stores for a short 
while, from thence he went to R. Wallace & 
Sons' Manufacturing Company, with whom he 
has been employed for the past seventeen 



years. He knows every prominent hotehnan 
and is familiar with all departments of this 
famous silver house. For several years he has 
had exclusive management of the hotel de- 
partment and also of the entire Chicago trade. 
Mr. Laiblin is a graduate of the Chicago Bus- 
iness Law School, having completed his course 
in 190S and was admitted to the bar in June, 
1909. He possesses a pleasing personality and 
has made many friends both in and out of 
Chicago. 



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s";!**"^ 



L_ 



p. Li. Carpenter, Dri\in8' His Horse Harry I\lcKa>'. 



P. L. Carpenter, proprietor The Capital, Johnstown, Pa., was one of 
those who enjoyed the trip to the Hmit. He entered the restaurant business 
about 30 years ago, but lost practically everything he had in the Johnstown 
Flood of 1889. Such was his energy, however, that seven weeks after the 
flood he had four business places started. In 1891 (December 2), he leased 
the Cambria Club, equipped and fitted it up as a good hotel, and named it 
"The Capital," — as he expected to make good capital out of it. The building 
was erected 30 years ago at a cost of $123,000. Mr. Carpenter has expended 
over $30,000 additional on it. It was the only hotel building that with- 
stood the flood, the high water mark showing very plainly to-day on the 
line of the third floor. It now does an excellent business, though it has no 
license. It is located on the corner of Main and Walnut streets, 91x132 
feet, and its proprietor is on the corner E Z street and Shady Side avenue : 
always "delighted" to see old friends and make new ones. He takes much 
pleasure in driving a good horse, and Harry McKay is one of the best. 
When the above picture was made it was Mr. Carpenter's first essay on a 
sulky. His trainers had all made a failure and he determined to drive his 
own horse, which he has ever since successfully done. He has a nice white 
birch cottage in Capital Park — a beautiful natural park of 50 acres — which 
he donated to his city. He is president antl director of several financial 
institutions and is altogether pretty well fixed. 



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Mlt P. L. rARPilNTl R 
proprietor Carital Hotel. Johnstown, 
Pa., comes from a city which was once 
tlie wettest city in America. He loves 
to attend H. M. M. B. A. reunion ^. 



ML-^S OLIVE l.OHN 

accompanied her fatlier on tliis trip, as her lirother 
Haro.d J did fourteen years ag;i. Olive was soon a 
general favoiite. and she and her companion. Miss 
June Horton. made many of their elders lianpv bv 
then- sweet helpf; Iness and their buovant, vet refined 
and pleasant meriiment 




;r^-0*:^ 






At Uie Indian viMage. Lagiinii, iTIiis 
IS not the family of .John Irwin who 
stands in the background.) 



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HUTCHIXSON 

Air. and Mrs. E. J. Carroll, Wiliiaiiis House, Manitowoc, Wis.; Mrs. 
Alice Rahr, ^\'ilIianls House, Manitowoc, \\'is. ; Air. P. L. Carpenter, Capital 
Hotel, Johnstown, Pa. ; Mr. and Mrs. Riley D. Cronk, Birmingham Hotel, 
Birmingham, Ala.: Mr. Martin \\''ill<inson. Miss Wilkinson, Gibson House, 
Crestline, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. W. !'. Hetherington, Hotel Belding, Uelding, 
Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Branhani. Hotel Pranham, Union City, Indiana; 
Dr. and Airs. J. F. Pember, Janes\ille, Wis.; Air. John F. Sweeney, Grand 
Hotel, lanesville. Wis.; Mr. J. J. Williams, Resthaven, Waukesha, Wis.; 
Aliss Essie Atendenhall, Omaha, Neb.; Mr. and Airs. I. A. Aledler, Alidwtst 
Hotel Reporter, Omaha, Neb.; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. O'Brien, Hotel Henshaw, 
Omaha, Neb. ; Air. and Airs. O. E. Sonnenberg, Hotel Jefferson, St. Iannis. 

CHUSCA 

Air. and Airs. William AlcCoy, Aliss AlcCoy, AlcCoy's Hotel, Chicago; 
Air. and Airs. C. H. Fosgate, Hotel Newcomb, Quincy, HI- ; Air. and Mrs. 
Sherman Bond, Hotel Jefferson, Toledo, Ohio; Air. and Airs. George AT. 
Christian, Elliott House, Des Moines, Iowa; Air. and Airs. \\'illiam J. .\kers. 
Forest City House. Cleveland, Ohio; Air. and Mrs. D. R. Hawley, Hawley 
House, Cleveland, Ohio; Air. and Mrs. Charles Laux, St. Nicholas Hotel, 
Decatur. III.; Air. and Airs. !'>. 1'. I'.ranham, Hotel Bulletin, Chicago; Mr. 
and Airs. John H. Lewis, Hotel Alarciuette, Alarqnette, Alich. 

ALIULO 

Air. and Airs. Chris Neipp, Hotel Robidoux, St. Joseph, AIo. ; Air. and 
Airs. Emil Demme, Hotel Bismarck, Chicago; Air. and Airs. Alax L. Teich, 
Aliss Ella Teich. Hotel Kaiserhof, Chicago; Air. Henry J. Bohn, Aliss Olive 
Bohn, The Hotel ^^■orId. Chicago; Air. and Airs. John Willy, Hotel AIonthl\ . 
Chicago; Air. and Airs. F. R. Huntington, Armour & Co., Chicago; Mr. and 
Airs. Charles A. Allen, Chicago; Air. and Airs. Charles A. .Allen, Jr.. Chicago; 
Air. and Airs. C. L. Hills. Aliss Hills. Hills House. Bloomiugtnn, 111. 

WH I LEA WAV 

Air. E. E. Carlev, Chicago; Air. Al Arundel, Chicago; Air. and Mrs. 
Albert L. Severance, Hotel Pfister, Alilwaukee, A\'is. ; Air. and Airs, h'red 
A'an Orman, St. George Hotel, Evansville, Ind. ; Air. and Airs. Charles C. 
Horton, Aliss Horton, Hotel Aletropole, Chicago; Air. and Airs. John Irwin, 
Irwin Bros., Chicago; Air. and Airs. C. E. Bennett, Hotel Beckel. Daytitn, 
Ohio; Airs. T. R. Roberts. Chicago. 

TASHAIOO 

Frank P. Ewins. John A. Ewins. Savoy Hotel. Kansas City. AIo.; Air. 
Henrv Hart, Chicago; Mrs. Fred Hotopp. American House. Kalamazoo, 
Alich.; Airs. Carolyn D. May. The Wisconsin, Chicago; Airs. W. O. 
Thompson. Pilgrim Inn. Alarion, Ohio; Mrs. Alary Lippincott. Pilgrim Inn, 



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THE 1510 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. P.. A. 




David R. Hawley, ot Tlie Hawley, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Mr. David R. Hawley, of The Hawley, Cleve- 
land, oliin. is one of the veteran hotelmen of 
the cnuntr.v. having spent nearly all of his life 
in the business. 

He was horn in the County of Hastings, 
Province of Ontario, and after attending the 
schools of his native town, worked w'ith the 
farmers until the age of fifteen, at which time 
he became apprenticed to a harness-maker. 
A few years at this convinced him that the 
business was not to his liking, and he driftea 
into hotel work in Rochester, N. Y., in 1862, 
at the Clinton Hotel, I. Ashley & Son, proprie- 
tors. He was first engaged to attend the lunch 
counter at a salary of sixteen dollars per 
month, and was later placed in charge of the 
private dining-rooms at thirty-five dollars per 
month. 

Leaving there in 1S65 for Chicago, he started 
to work for Tucker & Baldwin in the old 
Briggs House, and was soon after sent by 
them to help open the Hough House (now 
called the Transit House) at the Union Stock 
Yards. 

February, 1866, found him engaged at the 
Weddell House, Cleveland, then operated by 
Kirkwood Bros. About four months later he 
was employed by H. C. Brockway (a brother 
of H. H. Brockway of the Ashland House, 
N. Y.) in the City Hotel, where he remained 
fur five years. He then started in business 
for himself and. with a partner, A. M. Lowe, 
bought the old Pritchard House, changing the 



name to the Clinton House in honor of 
the one in whioli he had his first hotel experi- 
ence. This hotel he continued to operate for 
eighteen years, in the meantime l)U\'ing the 
City Hotel of the Brockway Estate, Mr. 
Brockway ha^'ing died in 1S74. 

He sold the City Hotel to H. B. West in 
ISSO, and in 1881 bought the furniture and 
leased the Striebinger House, which he ope- 
rated for about nine months, and then sold it 
to J. B. White. 

In 1SS2, with his brother Davis and .lohn 
Langton, he planned and built the present 
Hawley House. Mr. Langton died in 1S90, 
his interest being acquired by the brothers 
David R. and Davis Hawley who continued as 
partners until li'Ol. David R. then purchased 
his brotlier's interest and took his two sons, 
Charles R. and Frank M. into the business as 
partners. Charles R. died in 1906 and since 
that time Mr. Hawley and his son Frank have 
conducted the business under the firm name 
of David R. Hawley & Son. 

Mr. Hawley is also the owner of the Claren- 
don Hotel, Cleveland, buying it in 1SS6, but 
has never been actively engaged in its man- 
agement, it having been leased to \'arious 
parties since he acquired it. He also owns a 
private home at 85 East Rosemont Roadway, 
East Cleveland, where he resides, and other 
valuable real estate in the city. He and Mrs. 
Hawley were both highly delighted with their 
trip to the west. 



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Alarion. Ohio; Mr. Samuel R. Read, Read House, Chattanooga, Teiin. ; Air. 
and Mrs. Hen G. Vieth, Miss \'ieth. Hotel Madison, Jefferson City, Mo.; 
Mr. Allen J, Dean, Hotel Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo. ; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. 
Whyte, Hotel Savoy, Kansas City, Mo. ; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Keeley, Master 
Keeley, Cataract House. Sioux Falls, Iowa; Mrs. Frank P. Ewins, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Miss lUanche Harber, liloomingtoii. 111. 

DEBUTANTE 

Mr. Salvatore Tomaso, Chicago: Mr. C. D. Johnston, Yew Pine Inn, 
Richmond, W. Va. ; Mr. Harold F. \'an ( )rman, St. George Hotel, Evans- 
ville, Ind.; Mr. T. E. Fitzgerald, Clarendon Hotel, Sea Breeze, Fla. ; Mr. 
C. O. Chamberlain, Palmetto Inn, Daytona, Fla.; Mr. William Lablin, 
Chicago; A. M. Cleary, E.xchange Hotel, Sioux City, Iowa; Mr. Charles J. 
Lane, Hudson House, Fludson, Mich. 

Of this train. Henry J. Bohn wrote as follows in the Hotel World: 

"This is the Chicago-Pacific special — the New York and New England 
special trains are beyond the eye of our camera, the former swinging along 
through the Lone Star State and the latter eighteen hours ahead of us west- 
ward bound by the same route that we will travel. Here we are ! — in the 
Santa Fe Station in Chicago at 8:13 p. m., April 7, 1910. all ready for the 
start. The train is over seven hundred feet long, and will be drawn much of 
the journey by two and sometimes three locomotives. It is a train de luxe — 
a veritable first-class hotel on wheels. Never quite such a train has gone out 
of Chicago before, having in addition to regulation sectional Pullman berths 
twenty compartments and fourteen drawing rooms, and carrying with the 
utmost comfort and luxury the more than one hundred and twenty excur- 
sionists. After the locomotives follow a baggage and buffet car, from which 
the baggage has been eliminated and a "commissary" arrangement fills the 
space, where drinkables and eatables of about every name and nature arc in 
abundant supply in charge of two faithful attendants. Next comes the 
barber shop, with a skilled tonsorial artist in charge ; next the smoking and 
reading room and buffet proper. Then follow the most modern an<l up-to- 
date Pullmans in the railway service, one drawing room coach, two compart- 
ment coaches, three regulation coaches, one observation coach, and two 
diners, arranged in this order: Corcoran, Hutchinson, Chusca, Aliugo, 
\\'hileawav. Tashmoo, two diners, and last the Debutante observation car. 

■•^'ou see a large throng of people hurrying to and fro, the departing 
tourists and their hotel and other friends who have come to see us off with 
gifts of flowers and candy and last good wishes and fare-you-wells— and 
here, too, is Bilicke. Albert C. Bilicke, of the Alexandria and Hollenbeck in 
Los Angeles, on his way to his family in Germany, just happened here to 
say us bon voyage to the coast before he proceeds eastward while we go 
westward. All aboard! Good-bye! good-bye !— we're off for the land of 
roses and orange blossoms. Look at the canvas — see the long train rolling 



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out of the station into the starry nio^ht with its precious burden of humanity 
safe and sound in the keeping- of the watchful eni^ineers and scores of night 
toilers along the route. A\'e will draw the curtains on the happy crowd." 

( )n Frida}' morning, April 8th. Mr. Bohn writes : 

"'I'urn on the picture machine as we roll into the Grand Avenue Station 
In Kansas City, where the members who will complete our trainload join 
us. As the train arrives a band is playing and our German delegates ask, 



Colonel Leopold Moss was born in Louisville. 
Kentucky, in 1S53. but he lias resided in (?lii- 
cago since 1S5S, and is well known as one of 
her most active and influential citizens. 

In the days when there was a strong Demo- 
cratic party here he stood among the leaders, 
and his counsel was always desired. He was a 
warm friend and adviser of Governor John P. 
Altgeld and in 1S!;6 the Governor named him 
for an important position with the National 
Democratic committee, and also appointed him 
on his staff as aide de camp with the rank and 
title of colonel. He was also a member of the 
Illinois State Militia for five years. He belongs 
to Chicago Lodge. R. P. O. E.. and his interests 
in social, charitable and up-lift affairs gener- 
ally are very extensive. He is president and 
general manager of the Marshall Ventilated 
Mattress Company, not only one of the largest 
in the country, but the finished product it 
turns out is the best as to quality of material 
and styles of make on the market. 



New Southern and the Brevoort of Chicago; 
the St. Francis and Savoy. San Francisco; the 
Maryland. Pasadena; the Virginia. Long 
Beach, and the Del Coronado, Coronado Beach. 
Cal.: Hotel Southland, Dallas; the new Gunter 
and St. Anthony. San Antonio, and the Crosbv, 
Beaumont, all of Texas; the Goldman, Fort 
Smith. Ark.; the Owyhee. Boise. Idaho: the 
Capital. Little Rock. Ark., and the Palmer 
House, at Paducah, Ky. As clubs, ocean grey- 
hounds and sleeping cars also come within the 
province of this corporation, it has equipped 
the Chicago and Illinois Athletic and the Auto- 
mobile clubs, furnished the state rooms on the 
two great liners of the Cunard Steamship Line. 
"Lusitania." and "Mauretania." and Sir 
Thomas Lipton's yacht, with mattresses and 
cushions and its mattresses can be found in 
the lower berths of Pullman palace sleeping 
cars. 

The Marshall Ventilated Mattresses and the 
Marshall Sanitary Box Bed Springs were intro- 




WIRE SPRINGS. 

WIRE SPRINGS IN CASINGS 



HAIR 

The Marshall Ventilated Mattress 



The firm makes a specialty of the hotel trade 
but it is a matter of some pride that President 
Taft during his sojourn at the Taft ranch, 
Gregory, Texas, slept on a Marshall ventilated 
mattress. Hotel Gregory is located on Charles 
P. Taft's big estate, which was to provide 
accommodations for the nation's chief execu- 
tive and staff. Among other thing's the man- 
ager procured these mattresses for the presi- 
dential bed. He sent on to Colonel Moss and 
had them built especially for the occasion. The 
President slept on them all the time he was 
there and he generously stated that he never 
rested more comfortably on any bed he ever 
occupied. 

Among the leading hostelries tliat are using 
the Marshall Ventilated Mattresses and Sani- 
tary Bed Springs may Ite mentioned the (Con- 
gress Hotel and Annex, the Auditorium, tlie 



duced in 1904. The first year only one thousand 
were made. Now the factories produce fifty 
thousand a year. Doubtless the wide acquaint- 
ance and popularity of Colonel Moss had much 
to do with this w'onderful growth. The main 
plant is located at Kenosha, Wis., in a building 
100 X 150 feet and four stories high, but tlie 
company also has factories in London, En- 
gland, and Toronto, Canada, and is now con- 
structing a mammoth factory in Chicago. 

While Colonel Moss was on the Pacific Coast 
he succeeded in interesting iiuite a number in 
his mattresses, and has since made large sales, 
among others, to the following: The U. S. 
Grant Hotel. San Diego. Cal.: the Clarendon. 
Sea Breeze. Fla.: the New Arlington, Santa 
Barbara, Cal.: the Grand. Salt Lake City, 
Utah: the El Reposo Sanitarium, Santa Anita, 
Cal.: the Kaspare Cohn Ho.spital, Lus Angeles. 
Cal. 



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'Was ist los?' Well! well!— look! Here is the Kansas City Hotel Associa- 
tion with a brass band to greet us for a ten-minute stop. A wagon stands 
by with two attendants in charge, with a wagon-load of fine leather auto 
caps for all the men and women of our delegation, the gift of Frank P. 
Ewins of the Hotel Savoy, one of our famous ex-presidents, who with hi^ 
wife and son here joins our party; and here are passed out hundreds of 
little bottles from the Shawhan Distillery Co., warranted a sovereign remedy 
for stomach-ache ; and a vast supply of souvenir postals ; and no sooner 
does Frank Ewins board the train than he presents to everybody packs 
of handsome playing cards. The souvenir stunt has certainly begun — in 




MR. CHARLES J. OWEN 
managing director of the new Hotel 
Raciisson, Minneapolis, well and widely 
known from his service with St. Louis, 
Memphis, and Atlanta hotels and as 
manager of Hotel Astor, New Yoi'k. 




MR. ALLEN .1. DEAN 
late of Dean Bros., Hotel Baltimore, 
Kansas City, and a wealth>' realty 
owner in that city, where he is the 
most influential and able member of 
the Park Commission: famed for his 
practical hotel knowledge in construc- 
tion and equipment. He is a native of 
New York State. 



fact, began last night ^\d^en Ma.wvell M. Jones of Libby. McXeill & Lihby, 
went as far as Joliet with us and ga\e everyone a beautiful Inillsexe cluck." 

This was on Fi Jay, yet as we nave seen, Mr. Ewms did the same 
thing for the New England Special the day before, assisted by the Kansas 
City Hotel and Restaurant Keejiers' Association, and members of the 
Missouri and Kansas H. M. A. Mr. Ewins is a firm believer in these words: 

"The annual reunions of the II. M. M. 1!. A. are redolent with fragrant 
memories of enjoyable things — of loving and life-long acquaintances formed 
— and what counts commercial success if along with it we do not make life 
worth living with the better and lovelier things of the world." 



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Mr. Ewins was responsible in many ways for the arrangement of details 
all along the trip which contributed so much to the general comfort of the 
party. F. P., as many call him. is truly an organizer and one who can take 
in things at a glance, and always does the right thing at the right time. 

Mr. Ewins has been at the head of Hotel Savoy for the past fifteen 
years, during which time he was also interested in and opened the Balti- 
more Hotel, this city, also Hotel Metropole at St. Joseph, AIo,, and the 
Illinois Hotel at Bloomington, Illinois. Having disposed of all outside 
interests, Mr. Ewins is now operating Hotel Savoy exclusively, and is prac- 
tically the exclusive owner. 

To the general hotel fraternity it is no secret that the Hotel Sa\-oy in 
Kansas City is one of the most profitable hotels of its size in America. It 
may be termed a strictly commercial hotel conducted at popular rates. Like 
its management, it is solid and substantial without frills or false pretense. 
When the addition was erected some three or four years ago, among the 
attractive features created was a roof garden and a handsome cafe, the 
"Santa Fe Trail-' frieze in which has caused widespreatl favorable comment 
as a piece of hotel decoration. 

When Frank Ewins first went to Kansas City from Bloomington, 111., 
near which city he was born and raised, and in which city he had been in 
the agriculture implement business, he engaged in real estate transactions, 
with the result that a panic and general depression soon laid him out cold. 
Then he broke into the hotel arena and leased a very small European plan 
hotel. He was successful and began branching out, when the Ewins-Dean 
Hotel Company was organized, the members of which were Mr. Ewins, 
D. J. Dean and later A. J. Dean. The company leased both city and country 
hotels, operating them with great success, and finally promoting and having 
constructed for them the Hotel Baltimore. Then Mr. Ewins sold his interest 
in the corporation to his associates and retired for a brief period, but soon 
negotiated and took possession of the Savoy, which he greatly improved 
and, as above stated, doubled in size. The property is owned by the 
Arbuckle Bros, of New York, the great coffee men, and they gave Mr. Ewins 
carte-blanche to go ahead and do in every way as he wished in the improve- 
ment and enlargement of the property. 

Mr. Ewins has always believed in the policy of interesting his associates 
with his interests financially, conducting the business in corporation form. 
Therefore the Hotel Savoy Company operates the Savoy with Frank P. 
Ewins as president, John A. Ewins as vice-president, and Alonzo B. Clark 
as secretary. With the management is associated Frank L. Taylor, one of 
the most popular hotclmcn of the Middle West, who knows nearly every- 
body that "comes to town." 



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37 



ON AGAIN TOWARDS CALIFORNIA 

"This Chicago train is said t(.) haxc Ix-en the finest that ever left a rail- 
way station," states Mr. John W'illey, in "The Hotel Monthh'," and Mr. 
Willey is so wide a traveler that his word shonld have considerable weight. 
He continues: 

"It was made np mostly of drawing-room and compartment cars, and 
was in personal charge of Geo. T. Gunnip, general agent of the Santa Fe 
Railroad. The train carried two new dining-cars of the latest improved 
type, one in charge of Steward Geo. Alarlin, the other of Steward E. B. 
Carter. The chef was Paul A. Pomrenke. F"red Wendell, traveling super- 
intendent of the dining-cars of the Fred Harvey system, was also along for 
part of the way. 




Interior EI Ortez. Fred Harvey Hntt-l. Limy. N. M. 



Fred Harvey Meals 

"The Santa I'^e dining-car menus (luncheons and dinners I were printed 
in book form : in realit\' si.x banquets, each taking a leaf of the book. The 
book itself formed a souvenir of the journey. 

"The hotelkeepers expressed themselves in words of highest praise for 
this dining-car service, the equal of which they had never seen surpassed 
in any hotel, restaurant or club. The quality of the foods, the perfection 
of the cooking, and the smoothness of the service marked the highest devel- 
opment of dining-car catering. The breakfasts were served a la carte. 

"A luncheon, complimentary by Fred Harvey, was served at the .Alva- 
rado Hotel in Albuquerque, the menu for which is also reproduced on 




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another page. The beautiful iliuing-rooni oi this hotel was profusely 
decorated with flowers. At the close of the luncheon addresses in praise 
of tile I'Ted Harvey System were made by President Fred \'an C)rman and 
U. J. Bohn. 

Fred Harvey Hotel System 

"As the train crossed the continent occasional opportunity was given 
the excursionists to inspect the hotels of the Fred Harvey System, notably 
the Harvey Hotel, of Newton; the New Bisonte, of Hutchinson, Kan.; the 
new EI Ortez, of Lamy, N. M. ; the Alvarado, of Albuquerque; tiie new 
Fray Marcos, of ^^'illiams; the El Tovar, of Grand Canyon; the Escalante, 
of Ashfork, and the El Garces, of Needles. 




The Patio vv Inlericiv Cimrt. K\ Oltez, Lam.v, N. M. 



"The El Ortez, of Lamy. was just about ready to open. It is of con- 
crete in the Spanish style, all ground floor, and surrounding on open court. 
The doors are of wood and iron, the windows iron barred, the ceilings 
heavily beamed — altogether a uni(|ue establishment. It has the modern 
conveniences of hot and cold running water, baths and electric light." 

To resume Mr. Henry J. Bohn's narrative : 

"To-dav, Fridav, April 8, we call 'Kansas Day,' and you see on the 
screen our long train wending its way swiftly across the rolling prairies 
where fifty years ago roamed vast herds of buffaloes. To-day we distribute 
our delegation badges, itineraries, etc. We take all our meals on our 
diners, and here is where you should see a picture of these two Harvey 
dining-cars. Thev are built in the art nouveau style of architecture, in 




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solid mahogany, the tables larger than in the older pattern cars, and, like 
the rest of this superb train, lighted with electricity. Breakfast is served 
lis a la carte and luncheon and dinner table d'hote. From the first meal to 
the last served on these cars every man and woman in the party declares 
no better foods, cooking, or service is found in the best hotels of Xew 
York or Chicago than is furnished on those diners out on the plains and 
deserts. 

"The day passes as H. M. M. B. A. days always pass on special trains — 
all too fast — with card-playing, visiting, sight-seeing from the observation 
car, where the evenings are made jolly with singing and mandolin music 
liv Prof. Tomaso, who does the instrumental stunt for our train. 




Fray Marcos. Freil H;irvey lintel, Williams. Arizona. 



"This next morning out, Saturday, April 9, we have at six reached Las 
Vegas in Xew Mexico, and snow is falling heavily. It settles the dust and 
alkali and promises us a very comfortable day's travel. At noon we are 
at Albuquerque and with the compliments of Fred Harvey we are served 
a splendid dinner at the beautiful .Alvarado Hotel of the Harvey System. 
The stop and dinner at this unique and i)icturesque mission-style hotel is 
greatly enjoyed. 

"All aboard! and on westward to the cactus plains of Arizona. How 
comfortable and contented we all are in our fast moving "Hotel de Luxe' — 
the weather perfect, every wish of the traveler anticipated, food, drink, 
cigars, candy, gum! An itinerary in the hands of ever\' one tells us not 
only the name and location of everyone on board, but the daily program 
in California that we are looking forward to with delightful anticipations. 
Yes, our train is fully equipped to meet every emergency — even to the 



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THE 1910 TRIP (.)F THE H. M. .M. 



A. 



medicine chest. Xothing has lieeii overlooked, and no request is left 
ungratified. 

"An hour and a half west of Albuquerque the train stops hard by the 
old Indian village of Laguna and we all take an hour's stroll about this 
very interesting and ancient American community, climbing to the roof 
of the historic old church, inspecting its interior mysteries, and a dozen 
kodaks are busy snapping the dark-skinned "warriors," the squaws at their 
outdoor laundering and household duties, the many pappooses and Indian 
lidlets, and other odd scenes. .\nd then it's "on ag'in, off ag'in.' 




I'lnitit by \V. F. Hetlieringion. Beld'nig. Muhigjii 

Some of the Chicago party on the steps of El Tovar, Grand Canyon of Arizona. Standing, 
left to right: A. L. Severance. W. H. Worth. .1. K. Blatchford. Seated, left to right: A. B. 
Brandt, Mrs. Severance, Mrs. Brandt, Mrs. Hetherington. In front: Henry J. Bohn. 

""It is early Sunday morning, April 10th, after a very comfortable day 
and night from Albuquerque across what has been known as the 'arid 
plains" of New Mexico, when we are awakened by the heavy laboring of 
the two locomotives of our train climbing a steep ascent. \Ve get up at 
si.x. get our breakfast in the diners early, and as the train pulls nearer 
the Grand Canyon we are all tip-toe and out in a jifify. hurrying to the 
'I\im,' to catch the first morning sunrise glimpse of the 'world's greatest 
scenic wonder.' And here for six hours we worship at the shrine of Nature, 
where Charles A, Brant and his charming better-half preside as chief priest 
and jiriestess at the EI Tovar altar. The Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe 
representatives give us every courteous attention : we are driven in tally- 
hos to the finest point to view the 'Imperial City of Silence,' venture goodly 



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43 



distances down the T'.riij^ht Alltel Trail,' visit the interesting Ilopi House 
with its wealth of Indian eurios, and fiiiish by listening on the lirink of the 
Canvon ti.i a lecture of Dr. (jeorge Wharton James on the geology of the 
canvon. supplemented with a talk by Pioneer Bass, a 'discoverer' of the 
can\Mn country, who 'begs to differ" from the learned geologists. James 
was brought b\- the committee in charge of our train all the way from his 
home in Pasadena to give this 'talk' to our delegation, and it is intensely 
interesting and enjoyable, for Mr. James is not only the author of what is 
probably the most standard work on the Canyon, but has also spent seasons 
in the bottom of the great al)yss studying its boundless detai'. 











A Navaho ■•Hogan," in the Imliiin x illage near Hotel I'^l Tovar. at the Grand Can.von ot Arizona. 

THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA 

( )f the Grand Canyon itself what shall be said, but that words fail to 
do luore than merely suggest some of the wonders the eye of the onlooker 
may see. Here, however, is a description written by John J. Bohn, editor 
of the "Hotel World," and by him entitled "The Imperial City of Silence": 

The eternal forces of creation in the dim ages of the past seem to have broken 
their silence to appear before the world and again fall in slumber. Here was the 
scene of their mightiest activities; here a moment of their supreme triumph. Now all 
is calm. 







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HE PACIFIC COAST 



45 



In beholding the Imperial City of Silence, its endless avenues of vast structures, 
framed, formed, fashioned in overpowering majesty of beauty and grandeur in this 
mighty chasm, the human mind is instantly endowed with powers new in the con- 
ception of the physical world. Xew and heretofore unknown and unfelt standards of 
conception are developed on the instant, and from these spring new emotions. 
Memories of the common experiences of life vanisli or assume the form of merest 
trivialities. You are uplifted, exalted, ennoliled. 




The "Rendezvi 



Hotel Kl Tovar. Gi-aml Can.vuii if AiiZMiii' 



You will never know the canyon if you do not feel it; if you are not attuned lo its 
harmony. It is not the size, not the depth and widtli. not its incomprehensibility; yon 
are aided by no description, no data, no analysis, no process of study or reasonniH 
And when the soul is awakened by what is contemplated, you will experience that 
ecstasy of emotion, that exalted condition in which natural sublimity and moral sub- 
limity unite, and then will come to you as if by magic the powers with which to 
comprehend the finished beauty, the majesty, the grandeur, the sublimity of what is 
before you. Words may fail you. but you need no words; you are not dwarfed, not 
depressed, not belittled; self-thought is lost and the harmony of the senses and soul 
brings with it a glory never before born through the contemplation of creation in any 
of its forms. 

One must be forgiven for describing his emotions rather than the canyon. To 
me the canyon is a subject too sacred, too ennobling, to admit of description. Any 
attempt is so bebttling as to be a sacrilege. Words, giving facts and figures debase it. 
The canyon is a theme only for the gifted poet, and he depicts on the page only his 
emotions; or the painter, who must, through the imagery of the artist soul, speak of 
what he feels, not what he alone sees, or he is lost. 



46 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. J'.. A. 



You must feel the spirit of the canyon; then you will for the first moment of your 
life appreciate the genius of its creation, and thereby the creator. One moment on 
the edge of this chasm — a tit setting for a city that makes a man-city a toy, yet elevates 
man to a plane where he may realize that he is a fit inhabitant — may seem the greatest 
of your life, and this appears possible though you may imagine you have lived since 
the age of Pericles. The spirit of the canj'on when felt brings with it that harmony 
of the soul and mind in which all is at rest — a condition where strife, antagonism, 
undoing, retrogression, the negative forms, may not enter in. You may have contem- 
plated the beautiful and sublime in nature a thousand times before; you may have 
stood entranced before a great painting, or felt the divine spark in the work of an 




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Santa Fe. on the way to tlie Grand Can>'u 



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orator or in that of inspired music, but the silent, inaudible music that seems to come 
from the mysterious and unknown depths of this mighty Imperial City of Silence, 
unfelt to the ears, and seemingly to all the outward senses, has a meaning never felt 
before. Until now you have never experienced the satisfaction that comes with a 
state embodying perfect purity, harmony and goodness. 

The canyon is a universe of peace, calmness, tranquility. Viewed from the rim, 
when the sun is sinking low, and the foundations, sides, towers, turrets and temples 
of the great structures are glowing in colors, from the fiery red of the furnace to the 
varying shade of mountain, valley and plain, the song of a bird disturbs the silent 
harmony. It is not awful nor ominous. The mind, seemingly getting a glimpse of the 
infinite, flies back over ages and ages into the past here revealed, and finds nothing 
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of years, progressing silently, peacetnlly. unci'asingly. Onh- gravity anil chemical 
action have wronght out its increasing beautj' during all these ages, and the countless 
years have not brought the wreck and ruin ascribed to the "tierce spirit of the glass 
and scythe!" 

The edge or rim, yoiukr, thirteen miles distant, opposite from where you stand, 
is perfectly level. The foundations, the coping, cornices, and lines of these gigantic 
structures, miles upon miles in length, are level, true, as carefully laid as the monument 
at Washington. If a little piece the size of a twetity-story business block has fallen 
down a thousand feet it is such a trifle that it awakens no thought of great activity, 
of great tumult; it is ,-i trifling detail in the silent worl< and finish that has been in 




In the Huin H-iuse, at ni'tcl lOl Tovar, Graml ('.iii.Mm i^i .\n-..ii,i 

progression during aeons. Vou feel instinctively that nothing has happened during 
the age of man to cause a sudden change; nothing will transpire for ages to come 
to transform this overwhelming unity of the beautiful and grand. But. predominating 
above all else is the e.\quisite spirit of peace, and you would not have it changed for 
a world of common material. If you are at Hopi point, miles distant from the water, 
when all is calm, and your ear is trained, you may hear a faint, soft sighing of the 
river's current, not unlike a breeze playing through the needles of a pine. But that 
is all; not a whisper, not a note, a sound from any source breaks the reverie. Its 
wondrous change in color, as painted by sun, moon, cloud, sky and atmosphere, are 
silent transformations. The canyon breathes the spirit of eternal repose. 



The phenomenon, physically, presented by the Grand Canyon of Arizona is that 
the mighty Colorado river, 2,000 miles long, with its head resting in faraway Utah, 



50 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 




The Coirmulci 1;i\.t m llii- Ikm]! ..r tl:.- Ciaiiiti- Gorge i.f the ijraiifl Canvim uf Arizona, just 

helow Hotel El Tovar. 



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51 



and draining 300,000 square miles of territory, in its astounding course to the ocean, 
tlie Gulf of California, in old Mexico, flows for several hundred miles through a 
idateau nearly 7,000 feet above sea level. What formed the chasm? How came the 
stream to break through a mountain plain of such extent? This you must discuss 
with the geologist, and his reply will be mere conjecture. On the rim of the chasm 
are fossils of great variety, proving clearly that the seven-thousand-foot elevation was 
at one time the ocean bottom. The theory is advanced that the earth's interior gases 
raised this plateau, even as yeast does a loaf of bread, from the ocean bottom; that 
in cooling and drying the rent or gap was formed, and through it came the dammed-up 
waters from the north. ^ ^ ^ 




Naviihii bliinlift wt-a\ iiiK in the Hcii Hniuse. Hotel El Tovar. GralKl Can.vun of Aiizuna. 



It is noon time. The train has been groaning up the grades and curves to the 
El Tovar. Mr. and ^Irs. Charles .\. Hrant. host and hostess, are there to meet any 
special guests, and all are welcomed to— not a hotel, but what at a glance seems a 
.great art studio, with possibly a hotel plant attached somewhere in the rear. You are 
invited, first of all, to step fifty feet to the edge of the canyon and take a glance over 
the rim. even before venturing to your room. I am not recording any first impres- 
sion; the final one is of more value and far more correct. You see the great structural 
masses, marvelous in size and color, and which you later learn are thousands of feet 
in height, but of which, at the time, you have no conception. You detect distant 
pinnacles and towers, varying in form, but all designed after the one architect, and 
far down in the bcttoni is a slender, tiny thread, just discernible. It is the trail or 
road. Beyond is a thin streak of green, of grass— it consists of willow trees along a 



52 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. :M. R. A. 

little stream. You make the same attempt to distinguish objects that you did in 
boyhood when studying the alleged mountains on the moon. The person who glances 
into the canyon and then leaves it, believing he has seen the canyon, is hopelessly, 
irretrievabh- deceived. 

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The seeming danger of the forenoon trip intu tlie canyon kept tlie eyes of the 
inexperienced on the mule and the trail, with the knees hugging the saddle. Once at 
the bottom, strength, courage and daring grew rapidly, and on the homeward trip 
there was much turning in the saddles, with backward, side and front views taken, 
and the gigantic structures, the smaller canyons, the enormous towers, pinnacles, 
chastns, precipices, and all the features that form the great and silent city are seen 
and studied to better advantage. It seems less difficult, less dangerous to ride up the 
trail than down. And to see the riders far ahead and far above you, the ladies in 
costumes, was a beautiful, a charming sight, if you could for a moinent forget the 
surroundings. All were happy; there was singing, laughing, hilarity all the way. Half- 
past five, and your dear, old, patient mule has safely landed you at the door of the 
El Tovar. How gladly would I have given j\Iary a tip of five dollars, could she have 
appreciated it! 

It has been a day of supreme, of over-powering inspiration. The wonder of it all! 
You would not exchange it for a hundred other days, though they comprehended a 
tour of the world with the Grand Canyon left out! Thrilling, seemingly extremely 
dangerous, few ever faint or fall, or are injured, and the one regretting this daring 
venture is yet to be found. In our party here was a lady who had never been on 
a horse before! Young school teachers wlio had never climbed a real mountain were 
Napoleons on this forced march into the depths of the canyon. It requires far less 
courage, but inore endurance, to make the journey on foot. The little hotel at the 
first stop on Bright Angel Trail will keep you all night, and the timid and least assured 
should walk and remain down all night, though some return even on foot the same daj-. 

Before leaving, see the cany^on from the rim alone, by yourself. Escape from even 
your best friend. As the sun is setting, when all is perfect calm, watch the changing 
colors passing over this Imperial City of Silence; study the outlines, the proportions; 
the wondrous symmetr\- of the gigantic structures, letting the mind expand to the 
plane where it seems to comprehend this unity of the beautiful and sublime. This 
you can do only after you have made the tour to the bottom and the mind has sub- 
jectively encompassed what it has unconsciously contemplated. 

This venture into the Grand Canyon brought us all close together, and we looked 
upon each other with much of the respect and even admiration that ordinarily comes 
only with years of acquaintanceship. 

"Touched by a light that hatli no name. 
A glory never sung. 
Aloft on sky and mountain wall 
.\re God's great pictures hung. 
***** 
"The canyon holds its breath; no leaf 
Of all its pines is twirled; 
The silence of eternity 

Seems falling on the world." 



It may interest the meniljers of the H. M. ^I. B. A. to know that I ha\'e Ijeen visiting and 
exploring various sections of the Grand Can>-nn of Arizona for upwards of twent>'-five years, and 
tliat I have written two boolis upon tlie sulijeet. one "In and Around the Grand Canyon," and the 
later one. which describes El Tovar and all the recent improvements for enabling the visitor to 
see the Canyon, "The Grand Canyon of Arizona." Both these boolis are published by Little, 
Brown & Co.", Boston. Mass., or can be ordered from me. 109S N. Raymond avenue, Pasadena, Pal 



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ON TO CALIFORNIA 

"Alas and alack! — wc- can not tarry in this grand spot — on ag'in, off 
ag'in it is, and this will have to be the slogan all the way to and up the 
coast. A delightful afternoon's travel over the 'Arizona desert' that doesn't 
give us even a bit of alkali, but picturesque views of rolling plains covered 
with cacti, jack rabbits and other native things. Tiresome? I guess not — • 
look at the picture — never saw a crowd in your life that looked or lived 
more happily or contented on a raihva}- train, and so regretful that the 
trip across the continent is so short. .And why not? \\'ith those Harvey 
dining-cars — such meals — such a butifct car — such compartments and draw- 
ing-rooms — such social round-ups — such music and singing on the observa- 




K\ (jarces. Fred Haivey hotel, Needles, California. 

tion car! Why \\-ouldn't we want to keep right on and on? Onh- one 
reason — expecting something still better beyond, and so one more night in 
"Our Happy Home' on the train and we wake in California! On time? 
Guess so— been killing hours along the way not to get in ahead of time. 
And that reminds me, I forgot a bit ago to slip the 'Needles' into my 
picture machine. Last night toward midnight we stopped half an hour at 
Needles, Cal., where now is one of Harvey's best hotels, where fourteen 
years ago we found a shack. See that bunch of squaws laying for us 
tourists? They have 'rings on their fingers and bells on their toes,' but 
they are not asking 'Has anybody here seen Kelly?' They see us and sell 
us beads galore — these Indian maidens of some si.xty or seventy sunny 
summers and lean winters." 



CHAPTER II 

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1910 

SAN BERNARDINO, REDLANDS AND RIVERSIDE 

The first stop in California was niailt- in San Bernardino, one of tlie 
rider towns of the southern part of the State, and one which is just arous- 
ing to a full sense of its civic importance. \\ ithin the past few years it ha:; 
luaiJe great striiles in material progress and population, adding many new 
and Ime bui!dine;-s and enlarging the area of its richlv cultivated lands. 




The City's Artesian Well, San Bernardino, Cal. Tliis \\e'.\ flows three million gallons every 24 

honrs. 

From the time of the Indians this valley has been known as Gauchama, "the 
place of plenty," and when I'adre Uumetz of San Gabriel came over, on 
May 20, 1810, and founded the Chapel of San Bernardino, he unconsciously 
took possession of the land from the Indians for the white man. For, soon 
after Sloat and Fremont had planted the llag of our nation in California, the 
Mormons settled in Gauchama, then known as San Bernardino, and it has 
proven a land of plenty since. That the city itself is pushing forward is 
proven by the fact that over a (piarter of million dollars were spent in street 
improvements for the year 1")09-10. 




Edward W. Cason, Secretary S. C. H. A., Los Angeles. Cal. 



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The special trains were met at the depot by electric cars kiiidlv sent 
for the occasion by Mr. A. R. Merrihew. the manager of the San Bernardino 
Valley Traction Co. After a ride through the city the party was taken to 
the city's artesian well. San Bernardino is wise in that it controls its own 
water supply. The Eastern guests were both delighted and astonished to 
see such a flood of water pouring forth as this great well revealed, giving 
them some idea of the wealth of water underneath, and making possible the 
creation of these fertile valleys. j\lr. A. G. Kendall, president of the 
Farmers' Exchange National Bank, with his associates was on hand to 
explain the various and different methods of using the water peculiar to 
California, and the visit was therefore made one of instruction and interest. 

Mr. E. M. Crawford took several of the party through his hotel, the 
New Stewart, and they enjoyed his hospitality. The Xew Stewart Motel 
was built some seventeen years ago, by the San Bernardino National Bank, 
of which E. D. Roberts is the president. It has one hundred and twenty- 
five rooms, half of which are provided with baths. It has electric elevator, 
and is lighted throughout with electricity and has steam heat in everv 
room. \Miile it does a fair tourist business, it is pre-eminently the head- 
quarters for commercial travelers, and is one of the few hotels of the 
country that has as large, steady and paying a business as it can accom- 
modate. This success is owing to Mr. Crawford's excellent management 
and fine catering. Traveling men are highly appreciative of creative com- 
forts and these are provided for them in a way eminently satisfactory under 
Mr. Crawford's supervision. The New Stewart has an enviable reputation 
that manv a mnre ostentatious hotel might well en\-v. 



Edward W. Cason was born .January 22, 
1S71, at Cartilage, 111. He practically entered 
business life with Hradstreet's, with whom he 
remained for thirteen years, working in Salt 
Lake City. Denyer. and San Francisco. Dur- 
ing the last eight of these thirteen years 
he was manager of the Salt Lake City branch. 
In 1901 he came to Los Angeles and entered 
tlie hotel brokerage business, in which he has 
continued eyer since. As propiietor of the 
Hughes Hotel, Fresno, Cal.. he is a charter 
member of the re-organized Southern Califor- 
nia Hotel Association, and for the past two 
>"ears has been its secretary. He is also vice- 
president of tlie Angelus Hotel Company of 
Los Angeles. As secretar.v of the S. C. H. A. 
he was most active in the work of arranging 
for the visit of the H. M. M. B. A., and few 
know how much they owe to the comfort 
and joy they had r»n the trip to his efficient, 
far-seeing and tireless efforts on their behalf. 

In the hotel brokerage business the firm of 
K. "W. Cason & Company has been eminently 
successful. Some of the transactions they have 
negotiated are as follows, thus revealing the 
high position they have attained: 

SALES 

No. Rooms 

Angelus Hotel 225 

Van Nuys Hotel 160 

Maryland Hotel, Pasadena (partial) 280 

Rosslvn Hotel (partial) 280 

St. Mark Hotel. Oakland 250 

Broadway Van Nu.vs 150 

Hughes Hotel, Fresno 150 

Orena Hotel, Los Angeles TOO 



LEASES 

Lankershim Hotel 330 

Hayward Hotel 225 

Angelus Hotel 225 

Viin Nuys Hotel 160 

St. Mark Hotel. Oakland 250 

New Stockton, Stockton 200 

San Rafael, San Rafael, Cal 200 

Broadway and Occidental 170 

Chickasaw Hotel 150 

Arlingt'in Hotel. Santa Barbara 200 

Alvarado Hotel 100 

FAMILY HOTELS— SALE.-! 

Ahbotsford Inn 100 

West Lal-e Hotel 50 

Casa Grande. Pasadena &u 

Decatur. Ocean Park 80 

Westmore Hotel 80 

La Vista Grande. Monrovia 60 

And many others. 

APARTMFNT HOUSES 
Sales and Ijcases 

Cumberland Hotel 175 

Astoria Hotel 230 

Ems Apartments 100 

Adams Apartments 100 

Frontenac Apartments 130 

Angelo Apartments 130 

Schermerhorn Apartments 100 

Lovejoy Apartments 150 

In the year U!09 the firm did a business or 
over $1,500,000 in business leases, among which 
might be mentioned the lease between Bul- 
lock's and Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck for a long 
term of years, amounting to $1.0000.000. on the 
property and six-story building at 679-81 South 
Hroadwa.v. 



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DWICHT H. HART, 
Chairman of Recepti.jii Coiiimittee \vhi> met the H. M. JI. B. A. at San Bernardino. 



In conjunction with his brother, George A., 
took full charge of the Natick House, at the 
death of their father in ISSO. The succe.ss of 
tlie Hart hoys, as tliey liave ever since been 
l\iic»\vn, is one of the pleasurable features of 
Los Angeles hoteldom. Dwight and his wife 
were most acti\-e in receiving and entertaining 



the members of the H. M. JI. B. A., going out 
to meet and welcome them at San Bernardino. 
They made man>- warm friends for their geni- 
ality, cordially and the sincerity of their wel- 
c«_'me. and the evident pleasure they tnctk in 
providing for the wants of our Eastern guests. 




CHAKLKS C. LUOWIS, HOTEL ANGKLUS, LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, 
who was active on the Reception Committee and met the guests at San Bernardino. 



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Scenes at Urbita Hot Springs, near San Bernardino. Cal. 

The Elks' clubhouse at San Bernardino, Cal., was completed in December, 
1908. It is strictly Mission in its architecture and the building was designed 
and erected under the supervision of Mr. Frank S. Noyes of Riverside, Cal. 
The building and furnishings cost about $40,000. The lot upon which the 
building stands has a frontage on Fourth street of 142 feet and a depth of 
300 feet. There are 625 Elks belonging to this lodge, and their influence in 
the city in all social, municipal and generally' philanthropic affairs is marked 



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and potent. The present Exalted Ruler is F. C. Drew, while Col. O. l\ Sloat 
is Secretary. He also has general supervision of the clubhouse. 

As the cars rolled through the rich scenery of the San Bernardino 
Valley, Arrowhead was pointed out, that singular work of Nature that has 
never been explained, — a \ast arrow clearly stamped upon the side of the 
mountain. Immediately beneath it are the world-famed hot springs, to 
enjoy the healthful benefits of which the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel has 
been erected. It is a handsome, yet substantial and picturesque structure, 
admirably adapted for its purpose, and is owned and controlled by a board 
of which Mr. Seth Marshall is the principal stockholder and president. 

Ages before the coming of the white man the Indians knew of the 
healing waters at the sign of the Arrowhead, and journeyed thousaiuls of 
miles to bathe in their curative depths. 




The lake at Urbita Hut Siuings, near San Bernardino, Cal. 

And ever since the Franciscan friars settled in the San Bernardino 
Valley the white man has made pilgrimages to this spot, there to regain 
lost health. To all the people in Southern California Arrowhead Hot Springs 
is a name to conjure by, and since the new magnificent hotel was erected, 
and the finely engineered and constructed automobile road, the patronage has 
largely increased. 

The lobby, done after the Mission style, is the largest and most com- 
fortable on the Pacific Coast. Great rockers, couches, settles and open fire- 
places invite comfort and repose on every side. 

The Mission dining-room overlooks the entire San Bernardino valley. 
Great fireplaces, unique furnishings and an atmosphere of refinement con- 
tributes to the comfort of the guests. 



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The bathhouse, spotless in marljle tiling, has a capacity of 400 baths daily. 
Skilled attendants, for both men and women, are in charge, under the super- 
vision of the consulting physician. 




"Among the Trees, in Fight of water," at Urhita Hot Spring.'!, Cal. 

There is also a concrete open-air plunge in which a hundred bathers may 
sport at one time. To those who love quiet mountain rambles up shaded 
canyons there is no place in Southern California equal to the Arrowhead. 

Several visited the famous 

Urbita Hot Springs, 
reached by the Traction Company's electric service, and superintended by 
Mr. ^\'. E. Edwin. This is the popular family picnic and pleasure grounds 




Boating on the lake at Urbita Hot Springs, near San Bernardino, Cal. 



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of the San Bernardino \'allt}'. There are hot springs ijonring forth an 
astonishing supply of water, filling a lake upon which rowboats. filled with 
happy pleasure seekers, row to and fro. The bathhouse is well equipped 
for every kind of baths, but a specialty is made of the hot sulphur liaths, 
the water pouring out from a spring close by. The lake is surrounded by 
beautiful trees, which dot the ground in cver_y direction. Farge willows 
invite luingrv picnickers to feast in the open air under their welcoming 
shade, and there are merry-go rounds, swings, teeters and e\-ery kind of 




The High School. Redlands, California. 

amusement for the little ones, baseball grounds, dance pavilion, zoological 
collection for those who are older, and shady walks in variety where 
beautiful birds in brilliant plumage sing sweet songs to the young and old 
lovers, who say sweet things to each other who pass along beneath. 

This is a year-round resort, as the climatic conditions are such that, 
winter and summer, one may enjoy Urbita Hot Springs. The San Ber- 
nardino \'alley Traction Company owns the grounds, and the manager. 
A. B. Alerrihew, gives direct supervision to all its operations. This electric 
road, while under independent management, is yet a part of the great 
H. E. Huntington svstem. which is now reaching out all over Southern 
California. It is rapidly making extensions in e\'ery direction, thus making 
the valley more easily accessible to all. 



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Redlands 

Delighted with Saii Bernardino the hap]jy visitors were whirled through 
the orange groves to Redlands, and there, for the first time this trip, all 
three special trains and their passengers met. There were many happy 
greetings, while the cornetist of the New England train made the welkin 
ring with his happ}' strains. 

Here a committee from the S. C. H. A. took the party in charge, led by 
Air. John S. Mitchell, of the Hollenbeck, and including Mr. C. C. Loomis, 
proprietor of the Angelus : Mr. E. L. Potter, of the Van Nuys ; Mr. D. H. 




The Gateway to the E. C. Sterling Residence. Redlands, California. 

Hart, of the Rosslyn ; Mr. Gilbert Carleton, of the Virginia, at Long Beach, 
and Mr. E. W. Cason, secretary of the local Hotel Men's Association. 

It was rather a hurried stay the hotelmen made in Redlands, but enough 
to give them a taste for more. Automobiles, tally-hos and carriages met all 
the trains and everyone was taken out to see the sights for which Redlands 
is famed the world over. Packing houses were visited, for it was the height 
of the orange season, and of course Smiley Heights, wdiere the pleasure was 
much enhanced by the cordial greeting awarded the guests by Mr. Albert 
K. Smiley, who. even though a slight rain was falling, came out to speak 
cordial words of welcome. 

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On a rise of land overlookin;::;- fertile San Bernardino A'allcv. there is a 
city named Redlands. for no apparent reason, unless, perhaps, it is because 
its twelve thousand inhabitants hax'e in their veins rich red blood. The city 
is like nothing' so much as a throne on a raised dais, commanding" a kingdom 
Midas might envy. For, converging in a distant green blur, long rows of 
orange trees stretch away on every hand like coUosal arteries, gathering 
from an orange heart the pulsing stream of gold — nourishment of Redlands. 

At the feet of the throne are fertile acres in thousands. From them men 
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and child making the nation's total of a hundred millions, four luscious juice- 
full, golden rhinds. 

In figures the story of this mammoth harvest is told this wise: During a 
season extending from Xovember 23d to September 11th, less than eleven 
months, 4,721 carloads, containing 1,680,986 boxes, of oranges and lemons 
were shipped from Redlands packing houses. 

This golden stream of wealth has increased steadily each year. In many 
ways its growth is sIidwii. F'or instance, the assessed valuation, on a basis 
of one-third of the real valuation, has increased from a million and a half in 
1889 to eight millions in 1910, a real valuation at the present instant of 
$25,000,000. 



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A Healthful Eden 

Amid these far reaches of verdant orchard lands one finds little use for 
drug or doctor. Climatically the land is all one might imagine Eden. 

Atlantic City, far to that other side of our continent where the sun rises 
out of the waters, proudly boasted a fortnight ago that it was king in matters 
of health. 

'AMiy," said Atlantic City, "But eleven out of every thousand of my 
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In Redlands NINE people out of ever}' thousand surrender to Father 
Time and his death sickle. 

Instead, then, of Atlantic City owning the lowest death rate in the United 
States, Redlands claims that honor. 

And when one again looks at the records for statistics, one finds that half 
of those who die in Redlands have attained the allotted span of years — have 
lived to ripe old age in a fragrant, sunny land. 

Climatically Excellent 

This longevity is due first to climate, second to well-ordered living. Pure 
atmosphere and pure surroundings can not but result in pure lives. 



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Redlands has a highest maximum temperature ranging from 105 in July 
and August to 79 and 80 in January and February. It has a mean maximum 
ranging from 95 in July and August to 63 in January. 

It has a mean minimum temperature ranging from 59 in Jul}- and August 
to 40 and 41 in January and February. 

Among the many who were anxious to please and interest the visitors, 
it may seem invidious to pick out any one person, but I could not fail to 
note how assiduous was Air. Clifton E. Sanborn, a young real estate man of 
the city, who has grown up with it, knows it from one end to the other, and 
whose automobile as well as his own services were generously placed at the 




Driveway Entrance to the Casa Loma Hotel. Redlands, California. 



disposal of the committee. If there are any members of the 11. AI. M. B. A. 
who wish to purchase million dollar ranches lor more) in this region they 
can not put themselves into safer hands than those of Mr. Sanborn. 

Hill Crest Inn was visited, where all were hospitably received and 
refreshments served. A daint}- lunch was also provided at the Casa Loma, 
the chief hotel of Redlands. whose manager, James S. Aurand, was tireless in 
his efforts to see that all were hospitably entertained. The Casa Loma is a 
purely California hotel both in style and surroundings. It was just com- 
pleted when the H. AI. AI. B. A. visited California fourteen years ago, and Dan 
Richey's father was its owner and manager. Occupying rising ground from 
the heart of the city — as its name Casa Loma — the House on the Hill — 
implies, it commands a magnificent view of the valley and snow-capped 
mountains and is within easy walking distance of the shops, depots, and 
churches. 



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At an expenditure of $40,000 during the past year, all the latest and most 
modern equipments, for the comfort and convenience of the guests have been 
introduced. 

The broad veranda with easy chairs, the shady lawns and sun-parlors are 
available to those who wish simply to rest, while 300 sunshiny days out of 
the year aliford ample opportunity for all sorts of out door amusements — as 
automobile trips, horseback riding, coaching, tennis and golf. The trout 
fishing in the nearby mountain brooks is exceedingly good. 

The social life is a feature that is carefully looked after, and there is 
nowhere a resort which otters its guests such a varietv of entertainment and 




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wholesome amusement, and while the service is all of the very highest order, 
the rates are extremely moderate. 

Situated at the foot of the snow-capped JNIt. San Bernardino among the 
orange groves, Redlands is by many regarded by far the most charming and 
healthful spot in all Southern California. There is practically neither fog, 
dampness or high winds. 

The encircling mountains, the rounded distant foothills, the broad valley 
with its distant stretches of groves where grow the famous Redlands oranges, 
combine to make up a picture that is worth crossing the continent to see. 

In fact, there is no end to the attractions of Redlands. There are delight- 
ful drives in and around the city, among them being the famed Smiley 
Heights and Prospect Park drives, with their tropical luxuriance of trees 
and flowers. 



78 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

The interior of the Casa Loma is charming. Its delightfully homey 
lobby, with its elegant and artistic furnishings, opens off a spacious veranda, 
from which a scene of semi-tropic luxuriance and harmonious beauty is 
obtained. 

One of the latest pleasures afforded in Redlands is the "Sunset Drive." 
This drive is fifteen miles long, mainly over a specially graded automobile 
road, over private property, and made and owned by a few of the enter- 
prising and wealthy citizens. To attempt here, to describe this drive, is 
impossible. Suffice it to say that it will ere long become as world famous 
as the Del Monte Seventeen Mile Drive. It takes one through the orange 
and lemon groves, gradually ascending, until on the hills overlooking the 
city and valley one has expansive views in every direction, and surely no 
fertile valley scene in the world can equal that which includes Redlands, 
Uplands, Highlands, Highgrove, Riverside and such noted places. But here 
the rugged and majestic peaks of San Bernardino and San Gorgonio, tower- 
ing nearly 12,000 feet into the pure blue California sky, and clad in winter 
with dazzling white snow add a dignity to the picture, while a little farther 
on one looks down into wild, rugged and uncultivated canyons and areas 
as different from the other view as association with a rude Chinese fisherman 
is different from that with a polished scholar. Yet both are equally inter- 
esting. Returning, the visitor may go through Smiley Heights, that paradise 
reclaimed from just such rugged and wild slopes as those we have been 
gazing upon, showing the marvelous resources of this soil and climate, 
when combined with directing brains and properly applied moisture. 

Forest Home 

A few miles from Redlands, in the heart of the San Bernardino moun- 
tains, is a most beautiful and restful resort, known as Forest Home. It is 
not a place for fashionable people, but for the sensible men and women 
who enjoy doing the real work of life. Nearby are the two great mountains 
of Southern California, San Bernardino, 10,800 feet, and San Gorf^onio, 
11,600 feet, and on the south is the Yucaipe range, covered with a dense 
pine forest. There are ninety miles of mountain trail to ride and walk 
over, including the new Forest Reserve trail reaching from Mill Creek 
over the Yucaipe range, which affords a glorious sweep of view over the 
valley towards the Pacific and comprising many villages and towns. 

At Forest Home there are excellent fishing, hunting, tennis, and a 
special feature is the evening campfire, where old-timers and others tell 
fascinating stories of the wilds, of the past pioneer days, etc. Entertain- 
ments of an elevating and intellectual order are constantly provided. 

Cottages and tents are provided, so that one has his choice of method 
of life, and the rates are reasonable enough to accommodate all pockets. 
Half-furnished tents also are provided for those who wish to do light 
■housekeeping. 

The stage leaves Redlands daily, calling also at Mentone, on the Santa 
Fe, three-quarters of an hour later. The personnel of the Forest Home 



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Outing Co. is as follows : F. J. Culver, President and Manager, Forest 
Home; Leslie F. Gay, Vice-President, Los Angeles; F. H. Clock, Secretary. 
Redlands; \V. B. Johnson, Treasurer, Rcdlands; J. F. Rockhold, Riverside. 
Mrs. M. C. Peck is the superintendent. 

Loma Linda Sanitarium 

On a hill — as its name signifies — just on the outskirts of Redlands, 
stands the Loma Linda Sanitarium, one of the rest and health retreats 
of Southern California and one of the most beautiful spots in the 



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western world. Completely surrounded by vineyards, orange and lemon 
groves, which carry the eye along to the foothills of the majestic mountain 
ranges that encircle the valley, it is one beauty feast after another, until 
mind and imagination are captured by the snow-clad peaks which pierce the 
clouds. 

This sanitarium is one of the forty-two similar institutions, scattered 
throughout nineteen States of the United States and twelve foreign countries. 
All these sanitariums are conducted under the auspices of the "Sanitarium 
Association," whose headquarters are at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. 
They are really under the control of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. 
This church, whose leader and prophetess is ]\Irs. White, holds that health 



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is a religious duty, and they Ijeliexc that the natural methods of simple 
living', natural diet, abstinence from flesh meats, all peppers, sauces, condi- 
ments, etc.. all alcolii.ilic lit|uors is the only true method. In these sanitar- 
iums the\' teach those who are well how to remain so, and to assist those 
whe) ha\'e lost health to regain it. Rational measures will often accomplish 
much, even in extreme cases. 

There are certain simple metheids of living, and of treatment, which are 
certain of results. These are Nature's methods. If all would regard natural 
laws, barring possiblv heredity and accident, all would be well. When 
health has been lost, however, it can usually be regained by following natural 
methods. 

The proper use of pure air, light, heat, cold, electricity, water, and food, 
together AX'ith exercise and rest, will work wonders for the restoration of 
health, even after other methods fail. These should have first place in every 
treatment and not be left to the last. 

Thev also believe that the scientific application of heat and cold is one 
of the surest and quickest ways of giving relief from pain and restoring 
health. Heat and cold are most easily manipulated through the agency of 
water, hence hydrotherapy in its varied applications is extensively used in 
these sanitariums. 

Baths of all kinds, sprays and douches, vapor and steam applications, 
packs and fomentations, salt rubs and friction, are a few of the means 
employed for their therapeutic value in treating disease. 

Mechanotherapy, including massage, manual movements, rubs and vibra- 
tions is applied by trained assistants. Phototherapy, consisting of electric 
light baths, arc light, finscn light, ultra violet ray. solar ray. is employed. 

Electricity and exercise also are constantly used. But it is more in their 
mental therapeutics that this institution differs from others. They believe 
that true mental healing comes through harmony of the mind with the Great 
Healer. A Christian atmosphere pervades all the work of these institutions. 
This is one of the greatest aids to recovery. When a person is at peace with 
God. he is at peace with his surroundings and with himself. A sound mmd 
in a sound body is the end to be sought. 

The sanitarium at Loma Linda is one of the best, and I have spent many 
happv hours there both for treatment and rest. The management is as near 
perfect as things human ever become, and the air of kindness and friendliness 
throughout from the lowest to the highest is in itself a pleasure and a com- 
fort to meet with. We have no desire to wish that any member of the 
H. M. M. B. A. be ill. but we can sincerely say that should any member be 
so unfortunate, or any reader of these words, there is nothing better that we 
could commend to them than that they, at once, place themselves under the 
healin<>- care of the iihvsicians at Loma Linda. 




Loma Linda Sanitarium, California, looking across the San Bernardino Valley to the San 
Bernardino snow-clad mountains. The city of Redlands partially in view. 



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Riverside 

From Redlantls the three trains went on to Riverside for dinner, and 
there, while seated in the refectory of the world-famed Glenwood Mission 
Inn. George \Miarton James, at the request of Frank Miller, the onlv, 
the most beloved hotelman of California, gave words of greeting and hearty 
welcome to all the visitors. He spoke of the hospitality of the mission 
padres; how that in the old days their missions and simple homes were 
open to all who came along without money and without price, and that, 
while times have now changed so that there has to be a monetary return. 




Under tlie Pergola in tlie Ptitin at Glenwood Mission Inn. Rix'erside. Cal, 



the hos]Mtality of l-'rank Miller, and his estimable sister, Mrs. Alice Rich- 
ardson, is just as hearty, spontaneous and sincere as that of the jjadres, 
whose spirit, if not their mantles, have assuredly fallen upon them. 

To every guest at the Gleenwood (and who of the H. M. M. I!. .\. 
was not a guest), an envelojje was given containing a book of welcome, 
full of dainty pictures of the hotel and surroundings, several characteristic 
pieces of literature, and the following letter, printed on Glenwood Mission 
Inn stationery: 

April 11. 191(1. 
Dear One; 

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lier coming this way. WF. HAVE FOUND THE GARDEN OF EDEN. Under the 
revised spelling it is pronounced "RIVERSIDE." The grapevines have oozed for us; 
orange blossoms have shed their fragrance over us; flowers are nodding to us; Cali- 
fornia skies smile down upon us. WE ARE LOST TO THE EAST FOREVER! 

Whew! If Wash. Irving were alive he would have the plates of "The Alhambra" 
destroyed, and. coming here, would see a building affording material for a REAL 
BOOK. This is IT. The chimes of the Campanile (notice the word!) have pealed their 
welcome, the harp notes float gently on the air, the colors of the roses and parrots 
enrich tlie "Patio." a Spanish meal is before us. Let Teddy have his visit with 
Wilhelm— we don't care — we are with Frank Miller, Master of the MISSION INN. He 
and every Californian seems glad to see us. 




The Sliermun Institute — Indian Seliool, Riverside.. Cal. F. M. Conser, Superintendent. 



OUR EDDIE has just telegraphed to burn down the Marlborough. Fred. Reed 
took one look, got New York on the 'pkone and has just announced joyously that he 
could hear the walls of the Park View fall. Sh! He has just risen to express apprecia- 
tion. I doubt if even his oratory can do justice. He will be partly in his element 
though — "You can't tell the truth about California unless you lie about it." 

Lovingly yours. 

P. S. — Tell all the youngsters to come here for their nuptials. This combination of 
wedding bells and orange blossoms should be required for every service. It was the 
Court of the ^ilission Inn the Prophet spoke of when he said "Marriages are made in 
Heaven." 

Then followed an automobile ride down IVIagnoIia and Victoria Avenues 
to the Sherman Institute — the architecturally beautiful school and home for 
Indians, now superintended by Mr. E. W. Conser, who has been in the 



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Indian ser\ice. in honored and responsible positions, for man\- years. Alanv 
orange groves were visited and some of the guests had the privilege afforded 
them for the first time in their history of picking oranges direct from the 
trees. The crowning delight was the ride through Huntington Park to the 
summit of Mount Rubidoux, upon which Host Miller has had erected a 
Mission Cross and a tablet in honor of Fra Junipero Serra, the founder of 
the California Missions. Here is what I'"ra E]l)crtus savs of Serra: 

Among the world's great workers — and in the front rank there have been only a 
scant hah'-dozcn — stands Fra Junipero Serra. This is the man who made the California 
Missions possible. 

In artistic genius, as a teacher of handicrafts, and as an industrial leader, he per- 
formed a feat unprecedented, and which probably will never again be equaled by a single 
man. 

In a few short years he caused a great burst of beauty to bloom and blossom, where 
before was only a desert waste. 

The personality of a man who could not only convert to Christianity three thousand 
Indians, but who could set them to work, must surely be sublimely great. Not only did 
they labor, but they produced art of a high order. 

These missions which lined the coast from San Francisco to San Diego, every forty 
miles, were manual-training schools, founded on a religious concept. 

Junipero taught that, unless you backed up your prayer with work, God would never 
answer your petitions. .And the wonderful transformations which this man worked in 
characters turned on the f.ict that he made them acceptable and beautiful. Here is a 
lesson for us! 

F'ra Junipero Serra ranks with Saint Benedict, who rescued classic art from the dust 
of time and gave it to the world. Junipero is one with .\lbrecht Durer, Lorenzo the 
Magniticent, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, F^riedrich Froebel, John Ruskin and 
William Morris. These men all taught the Gospel of Work, and the Sacredness of 
Beauty and Use. 

Junipero was without question the greatest teacher of manual training which tliis 
continent has so far seen. Without tools, apparatus or books, save as he created them, 
he evolved an architecture and an art, utilizing the services of savages, and trans- 
forming these savages in the process, for the time at least, into men of taste, industry 
and economy. 

That this miracle of human energy and love could not endure, and that after Fra 
Junipero had passed out, there being none to take his place, the Indians relapsed into 
their racial ways, was to be expected. 

When Junipero reached California he was fifty-three years old. He died at seventj'- 
one, so his life's work was compressed into the short space of eighteen years, or from 
seventeen liundred si.\ty-nine to seventeen hundred eighty-seven. 

On Mount Rubidou.x, at Riverside, there has been erected a giant cross, eighteen feet 
high, in commemoration of Fra Junipero. Here he often used to come and pray when 
the sun went down. This heroic cross outlined against the sky, with its setting amid the 
mighty rocks, is a most impressive sight, symboling to us the seeming barrenness and 
sorrow of the man's life. Yet down below, stretching away on every hand, are smiling, 
peaceful orange-groves, from which, blown, on the night breeze, comes to us the sweet 
perfume of perpetual blossoms. 

Thus, with the life of this unselfish soul, in spite of seeming failure, his prayer for 
beauty has been answered. 

The little city of Riverside, with its world-famous Mission Inn, perpetuates the life of 
F>a Junipero in fra.grant remembrance. 



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In tlie great "Sunset Cross" has been set a bronze tablet, and upon it are these words: 

The Beginning of Civilization in California 

FRA JUXIPERO SERRA 
Apostle 
Legislator 
Builder 

To Commemorate His Good Works This Tablet Is Hereby Placed 

Unveiled by William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 

October 12, A. D. 1909 

The guiding spirit in this good work of keeping alive the best in the mission spirit is 
Frank A. Miller. Master of the Mission Inn. 

No visitor to California should fail to visit beautiful Riverside and see with what 
lavish love the Millers have expressed, without being slavish imitators, this passion for 
beauty that once filled the heart of Junipero. 

The new monastery that Host ]\Iiller has just completed was pronounced 
a wonder, and with its crypt banquet rooms, organ, assembly-room, under- 
ground corridors with exquisite paintings of the Missions, roof gardens and 
open-air sleeping-rooms, is indeed one of the most unique and interesting 
hotel annexes in the world. 

One of the best descriptions ever written of the Glenwood Mission Inn 
is the following by John Willey of the "Hotel ^ilonthly," Chicago: 

"Here is surely something out of the ordinary ; a place the like of which 
we had never seen. A medley of old times ; a fantastic architectural dream ; 
an old curiosity shop transformed into a house of commercial hospitality ; 
a lazy man's paradise. 

"We enter the cotirtyard under an old mission arch with bells in its 
belfry ; fronting us is an adobe structure in the center of the court, and 
circling it the quaint rambling inn, with wide stone porches, pergolas, gabled 
windows, balconies, tiled roof; shade trees in the foreground; shrubs, 
flowers, vines in riotous profusion; here and there time-battered directing- 
posts with inscriptions in the lettering of a hundred years ago; a stone 
fountain flowing cool, clear water; parrots calling from the trees; rustic 
seats of wood and stone with comfortable cushions inviting to rest at every 
hand. 

"Inside, the odd effect is intensified. Curious pieces of bric-a-brac, col- 
lected from all over the world, decorate the walls and ceilings. At the 
dining-room door you hang your hat upon a saber point. The lights gleam 
from iron bells. Old settlcfs, mantels, sideboards, window seats, desks, cabi- 
nets, pictures, tapestries, spinning wheels, conceits in wrought iron ; 
Japanese, Chinese and Roycroft goods — there is no enumerating the oddities 
that meet the ej-e. In the bedrooms it is much the same. A heathen god 
looked down upon our bed from a niche in the mantel ; and Stephenson's 
praver. in odd frame, spoke eloquently from the wall. We were awakened 
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enclosure over the main entrance. Chimes played in the belfrv. Another 
day had followed refreshing sleep. 

"Glenwood Inn has about 300 rooms. The atmosphere is that of rest. 
'Xext to love, quietness." is one of the many mottoes posted about the house. 
The service is quiet, and so near perfect as we have found it anywhere. In 
the dining-room there are conceits in the service that please the fastidious. 
Old blue china is used. The chairs are as you like them,, with or without 
arms. At the door are baskets of oranges with 'help yourself invitation. 
The waitresses are summoned by bell signal. Quaint sideboards line the 
brick-pointed walls around the room ; and the tray rests are covered with 
linen cloths. Japanese boys do the carrying and cleaning. The billiard room 
and lounge are located in the adobe." 

Leaving Riverside, the three specials went on to Los Angeles, where the 
guests were allowed to rest, preparatory to the annual meeting on the 
morrow. 



CHAPTER III 

TUESDAY, APRIL 12. 1910; THE ANNUAL MEETING IN 

LOS ANGELES 

The thirty-first annual meeting of the H. M. M. 1'.. A. was held in the 
Convention Hall of the Westminster Hotel, on Tuesday, April 12, 1910, 
there being about seventy members present. President P'red Van Orman 
in the chair. 

Before the official proceedings commenced, Henry J. Hohn, of Chicago, 
presented President \'an (Jrnian with a fine gavel, with the compliments of 
the Nelson-AIatter P'urniture Company. 

The hotelmen were warmly welcomed, first by John S. Mitchell, president 
of the Southern California Hotel Men's Association, whose excellent speech 
opened the way for j\Iayor George Alexander, of Los Angeles. In his 
address of welcome his honor expatiated on the growth and de\elopnient 
of the city, and what was in store for the visiting hotelmen and ladies. 

In order to gain time, the reading of the minutes of the last annual 
meeting was omitted, and President Van Orman gave his address, which 
was well received : 

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 

\\"e ;ire thirty-one years old; nearly one-third of a century. That is the best period 
of any man's life. Take from it thirty-one years, there are twenty-iive years of 
immaturity left on one side, and twenty-five years of decline on the other. These 
thirtj'-one years have been the most significant from the standpoint of travel and liotel 
interests in the history of the human race. In this time the railroads of our country 
have been doubled in their extent and influence; the hotels have increased in even a 
greater ratio, and commercial development has marked the period beyond the concep- 
tion and comprehension of the human mind. During this time have come into practical 
use the hotel elevator, steam heat, the electric light, mechanical refrigeration, telephone, 
vacuum cleaner, the electric railroad, the phonograph, the automobile, and now the 
flying machine. It has been a wonderful, a marvelous age of material and commercial 
progress, and with it has grown the enormous system of hotels. To the greatest credit 
of the men who build and construct hotels, hotel construction, hotel equipment and 
hotel operation has more than kept pace with all the other industries of the country. 

Here in this land of sunshine, of flowers, of blossoms, of semi-tropical fragrance; 
under these genial skies, where nature and man join in a lavish hospitality unknown 
to other climes and regions, many of us far from home, we once more hold our 
convention. .And yet, my friends, it is not a convention, but a family reunion, a 
reunion of the Boniface family. We have met each year for thirty-five years. Thirty- 
one times have we been reunited. Looking back, what a vista of years! What 
memories are awakened of former reunions, former entertainment, former hospitality! 
And these memories become tempered with a feeling of sweetest sadness as we recall 
the founders and leaders of the organization of former years, who, one by one, have 
dropped from the list, who have passed into the shadows of the beyond, remaining 
with ns only in fondest memory, which these yearly associations serve to recall. 

With some of us these reunions have been life events, life experiences; deep, 



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impressive, lasting. These H. M. M. B. A. conventions have served many times to 
develop in us the elevating tendencies and emotions; we have been taught the gentlest 
consideration and friendship, and "The place where two friends first meet is sacred to 
them all through their friendship, and is all the more sacred as their friendship deepens 
and grows old." while Dr. Samuel Johnson has said that "If a man does not make 
new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone." 
The H. M. M. B. A. has made us a fraternity; it has created us into a brotherhood, 
and to meet and mingle each year, to note the changes, the progress or decline of 
those with us in the organization is to broaden our conceptions of life, bury rivalry 
and jealousy, bid care and worry begone, and refresh the fountain of life. Who can 
estimate the result! 




The Westminster Hotel. Lcs Angeles, where the annual meeting was heltl. 



How strange, how inconsiderate, how unworthy in many of us that at the end of 
the year we examine only the trial balance which shows our loss and profits; our 
liabilities and assets in material things, while we make no inventory of the loss or 
growth in our stock of kindness, well doing, generosity, helpfulness to others, or note 
the increase or decline in those things that mean the most in this life? The crowning 
feature of our association is that its only business element partakes of the highest 
attributes of the human soul — that of giving to the needy; it is a union founded for 
the purpose of providing for those who may be left in unfortunate circumstances 
through the inevitable law of death. The H. M. M. B. A. has indeed made us better 
men, better hotelmen, and we have only to remember that the beneficiaries of our 
efiforts rejoice because we exist, and that in giving it is not the one who receives, but 
the giver, who experiences the greatest benefit or pleasure from the act. 



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Many of us who pay our little assessments seldom remember that we are conducting 
a business involving thousands upon thousands of dollars annually, that the machinery 
of the organization is ever in motion, and tliat it must be watched, must be cared for, 
must have a guiding power. This management, as you all know, is vested in the 
board of directors, which for thirty-one years has met so faithfully monthly in Chicago. 
Since you have elected me to the presidency I have made some little study of organi- 
zations of this kind, only to find that my estirnate and esteem of the H. M. M. B. A. 
and its workings are even higher tlian before. Age considered, the H. M. M. B. A. 
is certainly a }'Oung and strong organization, which seems, to a degree at least, to 
avoid the fate marked for older, larger and stronger organizations of a like character. 
Having no salaried officers, except a secretary and treasurer; conducted on lines 
economical and conservative to the last degree, with a board of directors who give it 
their time and thought absolutely free of cost, the H. M. M. B. A. stands alone among 
the mutual organizations in America. Nothing can bring out more strongly this fact 
than to make a comparison of our organization with some of the older and larger 
mutual life insurance associations. 

The cost for membership for the past five years in the H. M. Jil. B, A. has been as 
follows: For members between the ages of 21 and 30 years, only $15.50 per thousand; 
members from 30 to 40 years of age, $21.00 per thousand; members from 40 to 50 
years of age, $28.00 per thousand; members SO to 60 years of age, $29.00; members 
over 60 years of age, only $30.00 per thousand. Let us take the cost to a member 
who joined in 1893 at the age of 31 and has therefore been a member seventeen years. 
The average cost for that period for $1,000.00 insurance has been only $25.00 per 
annum. Take my own case; I joined in 1889, and have therefore been a member 
twenty-one years, and am proud to state I have attended twenty annual meetings. 
The average cost during that period has been only $26.50 per annum for $1,000.00 
worth of insurance. 

One of our brothers, who had been a member for twenty-nine years, died March 
4th, and his average annual dues had been only $25.70. For a part of that period he 
had an insurance of $1,800.00, $1,500.00, and more recently of $1,200.00. No insurance 
company or fraternal organization on earth can make a better showing. This member 
died March 4, 1910, and on April 6th the board of directors ordered the amount of the 
policy paid the beneficiary. 

I have in mind a member who told me the other day that his insurance for the last 
year in the National Union cost him $42.00, as against a cost of $29.00 in the H. M. 
M. B. A. 

I have here a report that is still more significant. It shows that from January 1, 
1897, to January 1, 1909, two of the leaders among fraternal organizations yield the 
following figures: 

Royal Arcanum 
Deaths Average cost 1897 Deaths Average cost 1908 

in 1897 per member in 1908 per member 

1,812 $28.05 3,210 $34.93 

Knights of Honor 
2,233 $41.82 1.044 $75.97 

The continued success of our association depends upon individual co-operation. I 
shall always remember the address delivered by ex-President Davis of Boston at Palm 
Beach, Fla., in which he referred to the question of employing paid solicitors. As I 
remember it. Mr. Davis stated that such solicitation was contrary to the spirit of 
fraternity, and if allowed, would result in the members themselves losing interest in 
the association and that it would soon decay. This address was delivered eight years 
ago, when the association had a menibcrsliip of just over one thousand. Our member- 



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ship to-day bears out the assertion made by Mr. Davis in his address that members 
of mutual interest should realize the true brotherhood that binds them together, and 
'-hat each should knoAv that success depends upon new members to replace those who 
are taken away. 

No one but an e.x-president realizes what it means to secure new members, young 
members, desirable risks. This is the only difficulty that confronts our organization; 
it is the only one the neglect of which will mean sure decline and a fate similar to 
that of scores of other mutual associations, or its solution a continued growth, strength 




Mr. W. H. M'orth, Hotel AIb,any, Chicago, who has been on 
the Board of L>irectors of the H. M. M. B. A. for many years. 



and prosperity unknown almost in mutual life insurance fraternities. Full credit should 
be given any president, officer or member who succeeds in adding new members 
Gentlemen, new members are worth just so much in dollars and cents; this is not a 
question of sentiment, but purely a business proposition. New, young members have 
a money value; they mean a lower cost of insurance and a positive sum is assured the 
beneiiciaries. New and young members are our assets. 



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Gentlemen, we meet for the second time in California. Those of us who were 
here in 1896 recall the magnificent reception, the boundless hospitality that marked 
our sojourn then; it is as fresh in our memories as if it had happened yesterday. We 
who have met year after year, with each returning reunion seemingly surpassing the 
one preceding it, all realize that in no other country, under no other skies in this 
wonderful nation, is it possible to unife where there is so much of health, so much of 
beauty, so much of pleasure, enjoyment and true hospitality as in the great Golden 
State of California. 

The Secretary-Treasurer, J. K. Blatchford, then read his report, showing 
a present membership of one thousand four hundred and eighty-seven, and 
that $744,946 liad been paid to beneficiaries up to date, and that the Asso- 
ciation now has $49,015 in the reserve fund. 

The reports of the Finance Committee and the chairman of the Board 
of Directors (Mr. A. L. Severance) were read and all were adopted. Other 
reports were received from H. L. Brown for New England, Fred A. Reed 
for New York, W. A. Reist for tlie Middle States, and A. L. Severance for 
the Northwestern States, all auxiliar\' directors. 

After a short recess the election of officers was in order, and H. L. 
Brown of Boston placed in nomination John S. Mitchell, proprietor of the 
Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles, and president of the Southern California 
Hotel Men's Association. The mere mention of Mr. Mitchell's natne 
aroused the greatest enthusiasm, and a unanimous acclamation proclaimed 
him as the man for the place of honor. Mr. ]\Iitchell made an appropriate 
reply for the honor thus conferred. Harrj- L. Brown, Victoria Hotel, 
Boston, was now nominated for First Vice-President by E. L. Tierney, and 
he was unanimously elected, and on motion of W. \\'. Davis of Boston, 
J. K. Blatchford was unanimously re-elected to the position of Secretary 
and Treasurer. 

The old Board of Directors was re-elected, which is as follows: 

John C. Roth, resident manager Great Northern Hotel, and assistant 
manager Congress Hotel, Chicago; George W. Reynolds, Chicago; George 
A. Lougee, proprietor Park Hotel, IVIadison, \\^is., and New Kimball House, 
Atlanta, Ga. ; E. S. Pinney, Chicago; F"rank Upman, Chicago; William 
H. ^^'orth, proprietor Hotel Albany. Chicago; F. W. Rice, Chicago; Henry 
J. Bohn, publisher the "Hotel ^^'orld," Chicago; John S. Mitchell, ex-officio, 
Los Angeles, Cal. ; J. K. Blatchford, ex-officio, Chicago. 

That the H. M. ]\I. B. A. is far from being homeless was shown by 
invitations extended the hotelmen for the next annual meeting, received 
from Atlantic^ City. Boston and St. Louis. The one from Boston was 
emphasized 6y the fact that Harry L. Brown, auxiliary director, was backed 
by the New England Hotel Men's Association, the Massachusetts Hotel 
IMen's Association, the Boston Hotel Men's Association, and by the mayor 
of Boston. Not following the usual custom, it was decided, then and there, 
that Boston be accepted as the place for the next meeting. 



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Harry Loomis, Hotel Angelus, Los Angeles, Cal. 



CHAPTER IV 

LOS ANGELES, THE CITY OF THE QUEEN OF THE 

ANGELS 

\\'hile the Association was in annual convention, the ladies of the 11. .M. 
M. B. A. met at Hotel Rosslyn. and were shown about the shopping district 
in automobiles and in small walkint^ parties under the guidance of a 
committee of local women, of whom the chairman was j\Irs. Dwight Hart. 
All seemed surprised with the size and excellence of the Los Angeles stores 
and shops, and were unstinted in their praise of them. 

During the afternoon a tour of the residence districts was made by the 
whole party in automobiles. Starting from the Lankershim Hotel, at Sev- 
enth and Broadway, they were taken back through the business section and 
to Elysian Park, from there on through the park and along the northwestern 
border of the city to Westlake Park, then through the Wilshire b<;iulevard 
tract and West Adams street district back to their hotels. 

Without exception the visitors were entranced with the Ijcauties of Los 
Angeles, its fruits and flowers, and the beautiful view of the surrounding 
country from Elysian Park. All along the way the motor cars were stopped 
to allow the visitors to alight and take pictures of the beautiful homes and 
scenes. 

Naturally, those who were here fourteen years ago expressed their great 
surprise at the wonderful changes that have taken place — changes that make 
Los Angeles unique in the history of American cities — for no city in the 
country has sho\vn so rapid an increase in population as has Los Angeles 
in these fourteen years. A study of the hotels alone showed the marvelous 
change, and the visitors went from one to another, more and more impressed 
with the possibilities of this wonderful western city by the Sundown Sea. 

Hollenbeck Hotel 
As the Hollenbeck was the H. M. Al. B. A. headquarters fourteen years 
ago, many wished to visit that first. At that time it was the largest and 
finest hotel in the city. At the head of it was Albert C. Bilicke, then, as 
now^ the leading hotelman of Southern California. In the past fourteen 
years Mr. Bilicke has moved forward with rapid strides. He invested largely 
in local real estate, all of which doubled and tripled in value. His holdings 
were in the center of the city, and among these holdings was the present 
site ol the Hotel Alexandria. 



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But he kept his eyes on the Hollenljeck, and when his rapidly increasing 
responsibihties took his personal attention he associated with himself Johi". 
S. jMitchell, a wealthy and able business man. who. as vice-president and 
manager of the hotel company, devotes all his energy and time to the 




The Hollenbeck Hotel, Second and Spring Sts., Los Angeles, Cal. 



Hollenbeck. In fact, Mr. Bilicke's interests have grown so great that he 
devotes very little personal attention to the details of his two large hotels, 
leaving these to his able associates. 



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The HolknI)eck llotti is located in tin- very heart of the city, at Spring 
and Second streets, and while it is usually considered the commercial hotel 
of the city, it has done, and is still doinsi'. a very large tourist business. It 
it familiarly called "the Astor Mouse of the West." 

There has recently been expended upon this hotel about $30,000 in 
improvements, which has placed it in perfect condition and up-to-date in 
every respect. The Hollenbeck has long had the reputation of being the 
best paying hotel in California and therewith enjoys the greatest popularity. 
The house has 500 rooms, with five annexes facing Spring, Second and 
Broadway. 

The Hollenbeck cafe is the most popular restaurant of Southern Cali- 
fornia, patronized alike by citizen and stranger, as it has achieved a wide 
reputation for cuisine and service. 

It is the scene Ijoth in the large dining-room and in the private dining- 
room of many notable banquets, many clubs making this their home because 
of the excellent provision and service afforded. Mr. Mitchell, the vice- 
president and manager, was president of the Southern California Hotel 
Association at the time of the visit of the H. M. M. B. A. He is also a 
director of the Chamber of Commerce, and known to every one in the city 
as one of the leading business men. 

Henry J. Bohn, of the Hotel World, thus writes of the accompanying 
engraving" of the Hollenbeck Hotel : 

The illustration of the Hollenbeck presents a scene which the H. M. 
M. I'l. A. did not behold, because the great aviation meeting was over. 
\\"hcthcr these balloons and flying machines hovered over the Hollenlieck 
during that meeting the reader is left to judge for himself! Certainly they 
look like the real thing in action. It is not too much to expect that fourteen 
vears hence, when the H. M. AI. B. A. goes to California for the third time, 
they will go in ships something like the one seen hovering at the edge of 
the roof line of the Hollenbeck, which is carrying a big bunch of people, 
and the streamer flying at the stern might readih' bear the legend : 
"Chicago-California H. M. 3>I. B. A. Special. 1924. The Lowe Planet Air- 
ship." Of course, Mr. Mitchell will be right there on the roof to welcome 
the hotel people who attend the forty-fifth annual meeting! He and Mr. 
Bilicke will probably look a trifle more mature than now, just as we fellows 
who went out there fourteen years ago are now riper than we were then. 
( )ne thing seems assured, and that is that no matter how many new hotels 
will be built in Los Angeles the next fourteen years, the Hollenbeck will 
be right at the old stand doing the biggest business in the l)unch. The 
name Hollenbeck and Los Angeles are inseparably linked in the magical 
development of the great Southern California metropolis. 



102 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. AI. il. A. 




Thomas Pascoe, Hotel Fremont, Los Angeles. 



Thomas Pascoe was born in England in the 
year ] 853. For seven years lie was a. steward 
in the British Navy, serving on some of the 
largest men-of-war. In 1S70, when the clash 
occurred between the monarchical and papal 
powers in Italy the man-of-war on which he 
served was sent to Naples for the protection 
of British subjects. It then went to Athens, 
where Pascoe saw the execution of twelve 
notorious brigands. In 1871 he was present at 
the opening of the Suez Canal by Napoleon, 
and on that trip, as well as others, he catered 
for many of the world's great men. When 25 
years of age he came to the United States, and 
was engaged in New York and in Montana. 



In 1875 lie opened Pascoe's Hotel and Restau- 
rant in Colorado Springs, which he ran for 
six years; then removing to California, he con- 
ducted the Grand Hotel in Ukiali, and the 
Rose at Pleasanton. In 1884 he reached Los 
Angeles, where the Clifton was built for him. 
Then he took the Lincoln and ran it for sev- 
eral years until he organized the Hotel Fre- 
mont' Co., which built the magnificent Hotel 
Fremont in 1903. which he opened and fur- 
nished and has conducted ever since. He Is 
a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of 
Commerce, and was police commissioner for a 
term. For two years he was president of the 
Southern California Hotel Association. 



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103 



Fremont Hotel 

One of the most prominent entertainers fourteen years ago was Thomas 
Pascoe, then of Hotel Lincohi. now of the Fremont Hotel, so many went 
to visit him there. The Fremont Hotel is located on the corner of Fourth 
and Olive streets, Los Angeles. 

It is one block from the center of business, on a prominent corner away 
from noise and dust, and one block from street cars, but close to all the 
public places of amusement, theaters, churches, etc. 

It is a magnificent structure of six stories, constructed of brick, steel 
lath and cement, built after the California style of Mission renaissance. 
The ground plan of the building is in the shape of a huge letter L ; the 
windows to the west look toward the ocean and gardens, while the windows 
of the north, east and south embrace all the cit}^ and mountains. 




Hotel Fremont, Los Angeles. 



The Structure looks like a mighty castle crowning the most conspicuous 
hill in the city. 

The Fremont, owing to its elevated ]Kisition. commands a fine panorama 
of the city and surrounding country from its large square windows. Each 
one frames a perfect and unrivaled picture of mountain and at the same 
time invites floods of healthful and invigorating California sunshine into its 
apartments, which are particularly designed for light and pleasant outlook. 

The interior is well arranged in suites of rooms with private baths and 
single rooms. It is the only hotel in the city with every room facing the sun. 

The chambers are beautifully and tastefully furnished in the latest styles 



104 THE 1010 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. R. A. 

and of the best materials. Each one has hot and cold running water, large 
closets, electric lights, gas and telephone. Steam heated throughout. 

The halls are wide, with large windows, giving plenty of light and air, 
and are fitted with fire escapes and protection of the latest design. 

The office is on the ground floor — also the billiard room, writing rooms, 
electric elevator, etc. The ladies' parlor and receptions rooms are on the 
first floor, which leads out onto a broad veranda facing the street and city 
park. 

The dining-room is a large room, well ventilated, with open windows on 
each side, the northeast facing the street and the southwest facing a flower 
garden, which is tastefully laid out, thus affording an attractive view while 
at meals. 

The hotel was opened on September 9, 1902 (admission day of the State), 
and was named after the pathfinder. General John C. Fremont, the man that 
saved California to the nation. 

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, his widow, was the first to place her name 
on its register. Her autograph reads thus: "Jessie Benton Fremont. A\'ith 
best wishes for success." 

The crest of the hotel was executed and designed by her. The double 
F of Louis XIV was adopted by the head of the Fremont family, who was 
of distinguished French origin, while the ]\Iariposa Butterfly typifies the 
grant of the Mariposa Rancho in Xorthern California to General John C. 
I'remont. 

"Eternal vigilance is the price of safety" was his motto in all his expedi- 
tions across the deserts and mountains, and that has been adopted as the 
motto of the hotel, paraphrasing it in actual life into "Eternal vigilance is 
the price of success in the hotel business." 

Haywards Hotel 

The Haywards Hotel is one of the latest additions to hoteldom in Los 
Angeles. It was built in 1906 by Mr. H. C. Fryman, and is one of the few 
absolutely fireproof hotels in the State. The floors are of cement and the 
walls of cement and fireproof brick, unburnable and strong. There is no 
wood whatever used in the construction save for the doorways and windows. 
Originally with 230 rooms, it was soon necessary to add twenty more, and 
now a new annex is being completed with fift\- more rooms. 

The Haywards is unique in the fact that from the start it has been 
crowded every day with scarce a line of advertising, for Mr. Fryman had 
already achieved such a reputation with the commercial fraternity that they 
at once flocked to his new standard, and have stayed steadily with him. 
crowding his hotel three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. 




H. C. FRYMAN. 



Harry C. Fryman was a New Year's Day 
gift to his fatlier and motlier in tlie year 1S76. 
at Wapakonetta. Anglaize county, Oliio. In 
1S93 he came to California and at once entered 
into liotel life at Echo Mountain House on the 
^Jount Lowe Railway. His advancement was 
marlied and rapid, his next work being assist- 
ant to Manager H. R. Warner, &t the San 
Gabriel Hotel. Then for a year he was assist- 
ant manager at the Hollenbeck Cafe, after 
which lie became manager of Echo Moun- 
tain House, owner of Palms Hotel, Broad- 
nay, Los Angeles, which he sold out to Hervey 
Bros., and then opened the Brighton Beach 
Hotel on Terminal Island, which he owned and 
nianaged for three years. Returning to Los 
Angeles lie managed the Van Nuys, Broadway, 



tor two years, and the Lanlvershim tor one 
year, when the Havwards Hotel was built for 
iiini He equipped it througliout and has been 
its sole and only proprietor for tlie four years 
of its existence. 

August 6. ISOO, he was married to Miss May 
Fon of Los Angeles. He has received many 
honors from the hotelmen of California, being 
now the president of the Southern Cahtornia 
Hotel Association, treasurer of tlie Lo.s Angeles 
Restaurant Men's Association, and vice-presi- 
dent of the American Protective Association. 
Genial, courteous, enterprising, hard-work- 
ing, gifted with foresight and full ot magnetic 
enerlv there is nothing ahead of lum m the 
liotel 'world to which he may not aspire and 
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The Occidental Hotel 

The Occidental Hotel is one of those quiet, unostentatious and practical 
hotels that, apparently without effort, captures a large and profitable busi- 
ness. This means the most thorough and capable management, and no Imtel 
has any better than the Occidental under Mr. E. H. Hess, and the direct 
control of the three partners, Mr, George ^^'. \'on Ache and his two sons. 
Built and opened in 1895, it has so grown that the Broadway was annexed 
to it in 1908, so that now it reaches through from block to block, from Hill 
street to Broadway, and covers 120x350, more ground space than any other 
hotel in Los Angeles. 

It has 200 rooms, 75 of which have private baths, and runs its own bus 
to all the depots. With four expert and trained hotelmen controlling its 
destinies, it is sure that so long as business is to be had they will be able to 
demand their full share. 




The Alvarado Hotel. Westlake Park, Los Angele.s, Cal. 



The Alvarado Hotel 

The Alvarado Hotel, Sixth and Alvarado streets, is situated in the most 
sightly and exclusive residence district of Los Angeles, overlooking beautiful 
West Lake Park, yet at less than ten minutes' distance by street car from 
the business center of the city. It is one of the newest and most charming 
of Southern California's ^fission Hotels, 

The Alvarado is of a tj-pe by itself — a tourist and family hotel. Every 
luxury of urban life is afforded by its management, every convenience that 
the most fastidious taste could desire is prnviikd. It is exclusive, high class 



110 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 



in every way. There is an atmosphere of comfort and quiet good taste 
about the place that appeals to people of refinement in search of a permanent 
or temporary abiding place. 

The Alvarado is a Mission hotel ; its architecture reproduces perfectly 
this style of construction so appropriate to Southern California, allowing a 
flood of warm sunshine to brighten every room and affording a delightful 
outlook. 

It is specially equipped for caring for automobile parties, and being under 
the direct management of its owner. Air. Wm. B. Corwin, every department 
IS kept up to the highest degree of efficiency. 

Another residential hotel, out in the exclusive \\'estlake District, is 




C. W. Barker, Hotel Leighton, I^iis Angeles, Cal. 



C. W. Barker as a hotel manager has an 
enviable reputation. The fact that for many 
years he was in the employ of the Florida East 
Coast Railway Company, as manager of their 
hotels, at Kenilworth Inn, Asheville, North 
Carolina, is proof that he understands fully the 
art of catering to the most exacting class of 
patrons. For it is a significant fact that only 
the man who understands the high art of pro- 
viding a table above criticism can long .satisfy 



this class of travelers. Mr. Barker's name has 
become almost a synonym for tlie best class of 
food, prepared in the most perfect manner and 
served In excellent styi«'. His entree into Cali- 
fornia was fortunate in that he had just 
assumed the inanagement of Paso Robles Hot 
Springs Hotel when Admiral Evans arrived to 
take a course of treatment there. His wonder- 
ful recovery at once brought the Paso Robles 
Hot Springs and also Mr. Barker into great 
prominence. 



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111 



The Leighton 

The Leighton Hotel, for a city hotel, has a location seldom equaleil. It 
stands on a high hill, immediately opposite and overlooking beautiful West- 
lake Park, with its placid lake on which swans, greese, ducks and many 
gorgeous-plumaged water-fowl play and bask in the sun, and where trees, 
]5alms, shrubs, flowers of a thousand hues, colors and tones give a semi- 
tropic gayety to the surroundings and afford that charm to the eye that is 
one of the delights of Southern California. Yet it is right in the heart of 
the fashionable and exclusive "wilshire" district, also within a few minutes' 
lide by direct carlines to all the railway depots and the heart of the shopping- 
districts. Thus the Leighton has all the advantages of the very best of the 
city with the beauty and quietude of the country, and. as the dining-room 
and catering are under the direct and personal supervision of j\Ir. Barber. 
it is pre-eminently a family home, where the most exclusive and particular 
mav find all their hearts can desire. 

Hotel Angelus 

There are two grtat tourist and residential hotels in Los Angeles, that 
cater solely to the first-class and exclusive elements, and one of these is the 
Angelus, conducted by the Loomis Bros. It is one of the finest hotel buihl- 




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This is an excellent copy ot Millet's masterpiece made by a celebrated European artist, and 
now occupies an honored place in The Angelus Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal. 




The Angelus Hotel, Loomis Eros.. Los Angeles. Cal. 



Charles C. Loomis was born in Weaverville, 
Trinit.v county. Cal.. November U. 1860. When 
twenty-one years old he entered the Horton 
House in San Diego with W. E. Hadley. Just 
before the boom he bought out Mr. Hadley, 
and in 18S6 sold the hotel back, again purchas- 
ing it in 18SS. In 1S89 he started the Alber- 
niarle, in San Diego, the leading family hotel 
of the city, which he retained until 1S!I2. when 
he left the hotel business and went into con- 
tracting for street paving... But hotel life had 
got into his blood, so in, 1900 he became man- 
ager of the Van Nuys Broadway. Los Angeles, 
for Milo M. Potter, which position he occupied 
for two and a half years, when he and his 
brother bought the house, ran it most success- 
fully for three years, then sold out and bought 
the Angelus. which they now conduct with 
honor and profit. 



Harry Loomis was born October 14, 1S62. at 
Weaverville. Trinity county, Cal., of parents 
who were practically pioneers of "the days of 
old, the days of gold, the days of '49." Weaver- 
ville was one of the early-day mining camps, 
but in Harry's youthful days the chief industry 
had become the cattle business, in which he 
engaged. To this day he bears the reputation 
of being one of the finest riders in the West. 
He entered the hotel business with his brother 
Charles at the old Horton House. San Diego. 
They have practically remained together for 
the past twenty-five years. 

While both are competent hotelmen in all 
departments. Harry is more often seen outside 
than his brother. His genial and open-handed 
style readily makes friends, and he is the beau 
ideal of a host for a flrst-class tourist, family 
and transient hotel. The Angelus has a higher 
reputation to-day than ever, and this, better 
than words, speaks of the success of the broth- 
ers Loomis. 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 113 

ings in the Southwest, and possesses a most striking and commanding 
appearance. Tlie cost of the buildings and furnisliings was over $800,000, 
the equipment being of an especially choice and expensive character. The 
Turkish rugs alone cost a small fortune, one in front of the elevator in the 
ladies' parlor being over 700 years old. It is one of the show places of Los 
Angeles in this regard, and many visitors come to see the expensive and 
beautiful rugs and the elegant furniture of some of the rooms. There are 
300 of these, about 175 with bath, and when the furniture was bought and 
placed in position it was deemed a lavish extravagance that could never be 
made to pa}-. For instance there is the "Empire Room." Here is a solid 
mahogan}^ suite, in pure Empire style, of double bed, massive dressers, table, 
chairs, etc., surpassing in grandeur and style anything that Napoleon — the 
creator of the style — ever dreamed of. In the "Colonial Room" is a fine rare 
old "four-poster," and a carved dresser that would drive a collector crazy. 
These are the Louis Ouatorze and Louis Seize, and people of exclusive taste 
wire ahead of their visit engaging these rooms. There are chairs that cost 
over $100 each, and everything is in harmony with this expenditure. Each 
of these suites has its own private dining-room fully ecjuipped. Every 
room in the hotel has outside windows, every suite has bath and every 
bathroom has an outside window. In the open court there is a sun parlor, 
and this is a feature not found in many city hotels, and possible only in such 
a sunny climate as that of Southern California. 

There is a fine private dining-room, completely equipped with the most 
modern appliances for perfect service. It is finished in fumed oak, Crafts- 
man style, and with massive sideboards. This room is open to the sunlight 
and air, so is as fresh and sweet as though in the open air. 

The private banquet room, where the ladies of the H. AI. M. l'>. A. held 
their banquet, will seat about 200 diners, and it was about this number of 
gaily dressed ladies that enjoyed themselves while the annual banquet was 
in progress at the Alexandria. 

On the marble stairway to the mezzanine floor are quiet writing places, 
where one may be within immediate reach of the office and yet entirely 
secluded from its noise and bustle. 

Naturally such a hotel possesses its own ice and refrigeration plant, 
engine room and all the modern equipment that goes with a strictly first- 
class hotel. 

The name of a hotel often has much to do with its success and popu- 
larity. It does not make a bad hotel good nor assist in the management, 
but it does often assist in the publicity end of the proposition. When the 
builders of this hotel selected the name Angelus and purchased a copy of 
the world-famed picture of the world-famed artist. Millet, as a trade-mark, 
they did a very clever thing, for not only was the idea original but the 
subject harmonized with the name of the city and lent a new quality of 
interest and inc|uiry to hotel names. 

The copv itself is as perfect as the original, and is by J. F. Goldstein, a 
man whose work is highly esteemed by experts. 



TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 115 

Hotel Alexandria 

The headquarters for the great festivities were at the Hotel Alexandria, 
where registration took place and the programs, banquet tickets, etc., were 
given out. The cover of the program bears a map of the coast line from 
San Diego to Eureka, California, and is engraved and printed in gold and 
black, the ocean in blue. The first page of the program reads: 'Air. H. M. 
M. B. A. — Here's Southern California — It's yours — Accept it with compli- 
ments of your host, the Southern California Hotel Men's Association." 
Along with this program was handed a book of some thirty coupon tickets 
giving admission to all the festivities of the week, each coupon being headed 
with "H. M. M. B. A." and at foot the name of the entertaining association, 
while inside was given the day's or hour's program with time and all neces- 
sary instructions. Here also was distributed the very handsome badge 
presented by the hosts. This "official" badge was the real thing. It is made 
in three parts fastened together with links, the first section being the II. M. 
M. B. A. badge in gold bronze, the second being the cloisonne reproduction 
in color of the State flower, the flaming poinsettia. The third section is the 
coat-of-arms of the city of Los Angeles chased in three colors and rea<ls : 
"City of Los Angeles, founded 1781." 

The Alexandria is the latest word in hotel erection in Los Angeles, 
indeed one might say in all Southern California. As elsewhere stated, Mr. 
A. C. Bilicke, whose experience in the Hollenbeck, and whose real estate 
ventures had been so profitable, associated with him Mr. J. S. ^^'hitnlore, 
Mr. J. S. Mitchell and others, and the Alexandria was planned. 

February 12, 1906, the Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Company com- 
pleted and turned over to the Alexandria Hotel Company the palatial Hotel 
Alexandria, which was thrown open to guests on that date. It was gen- 
erally known that the hotel completed and equipped represented an invest- 
ment of two million dollars. A reasonable interest return on this enormous 
sum called for a rental which, together with operating expenses, established 
a new mark in Southern California hoteldom. 

Those whose fingers were upon the financial pulse at the time will recall 
conditions existant in 1906 and 1907, conditions which made for discourage- 
ment among capitalists and investors. 

The success of the promoters of the Alexandria project is strikingly 
evidenced by their next step which was to acquire in October, 1909, ninety- 
six feet of Spring street frontage south of the existing hotel and extending 
to a depth of 165 feet, upon which it was decided to invest another million 
dollars in the erection of an annex to Hotel Alexandria. Plans were drawn 
by Messrs. Parkinson & Bergstrom for the addition, which is now in process 
of construction, and it is estimated that the new addition will be opened 
October, 1911, although necessity demands a part of the new capacity by 
January 15, 1911, or in time for the season's business. 

The new addition will start on its lowermost footings 46 feet below the 
street level and will rise from the street to a height of twelve or fourteen 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE I'ACIFJC COAST 117 

stories, and will contain 325 rooms with bath, making in all a total of nearly 
700 rooms in Hotel Alexandria. 

The plans have been most carefully studied and the construction of the 
rooms ',vill be such as to meet ever}- possible demand that can be made of 
a hotel. The addition will be divided into three Avings with two large open 
courts, and each wing will be carried out in an entirely different character 
and design. 

\^'ing "A" will be equipped in a most elaborate \\ay. There will be one 
suite of two, three or four rooms on every corner of this wing, which will 
contain the best, the newest, and the most novel equipment and appoint- 
ments that are known to hotel furnishing. It will also contain the state 
suite on the corner of each floor. Will contain a novelty in design of parlor, 
bedroom, wardrobe and bathroom that is not shown on the plans of any 
other hotel in the world. In connection with the beautifully appointed 
parlor of these suites there will be a handsomely decorated and appointed 
dining-room, opening of? of which will be a commodious and elaborate 
butler's pantry and serving-room with small steam table and regular 
culinary equipment so that a dinner can be served in the dining-room of this 
suite on any floor of the building as conveniently as if it connected with the 
main kitchen. 

The sketches and designs for these apartments are being made by local, 
Xew York, Chicago and Boston artists. There will probably be a greater 
departure in the equipment, draperies, floor and wall coverings in these 
rooms than has ever been undertaken before by a hotel. A number of these 
rooms will have the effect that is only to be found in the most lu.xurious 
residences. While these extremes are not favored as a rule by hotel oper- 
ators, the management of Hotel Alexandria believes it has demonstrated to 
a certaintv that this class of accommodations will be in demand. 

Before getting into the public rooms we must mention the fact that a 
very extensive and elaborate plan is being matured for a winter or roof 
garden with pergola effects, many sun parlor nooks, presenting a most 
attractive day garden in the winter and evening garden in summer. 

On wing "A." facing on Spring street, with an elevation of 25 feet or 
extending from the mezzanine floor to the fourth stor_y will be the ballroom 
without a pillar or post 196 feet long by 50 feet wide. Off this ball and 
banquet room will be a service kitchen which will have direct communi- 
cation with the kitchen in the basement and affording facilities for serving 
a banquet of 500 plates without any interruption to the house service, or 
reallv without the knowledge of the house guests. Above the service room 
and overlooking the ball and banquet room, with balcony effect, will be the 
assembly room, which will be 60 feet by 60 feet. In case of a l)all or 
banquet, three large plunger elevators will land the guests upon their arrival 
in this assembl}' room in connection with which there will be ladies' and 
gentlemen's restrooms and coatrooms. A wide commodious stairway will 
extend from the assembly room to the ballroom floor, so that the conduct 
of a function will be absolutely private— guests not having to cross any 



118 TIIF. 1010 TRIP ()!• THE H. .M. M. B. A 




The "Express" Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 



TO CALII'ORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 119 

public corridors wliatever after the}' once arrive. There will be located also 
on this mezzanine or ballroom floor a conservatory opening ofif the balcony 
of the mezzanine, a large commodious clubroom for gentlemen, a children's 
and nurser}^ dining-room and several private dining-rooms. 

On the street elevation, which will be reached from Spring street by a 
ladies" entrance leading into three large elevators, will be located a new cafe, 
28-foot ceiling and 96 feet long by 50 feet wide, beautifully decorated and 
with exquisite French window and drapery eflfect, and beautifully uphol- 
stered chairs. Opening off of this cafe, at the rear of the elevators, con- 
nected by two large French doors, will be the Roman room in entirely 
different effect. 

Underneath this entire floor, in the first basement with a 14-foot ceiling 
and 96 by 163, will be located the kitchen, one of the largest and most 
elaborate kitchens which has yet been designed. 

Underneath this will be an especially designed wine cellar, and reserved 
storeroom. 

Underneath this will be the mechanical plant. 

Messrs. Parkinson & Bergstrom will ask for sketches from the principal 
artists of this country and will unquestionabl)- present something new in the 
effect of these rooms that is entirely different from anything yet executed. 
The whole scheme will seek to affect something new, something that has 
not yet been done. The operators and architects of this addition to the 
Hotel Alexandria have not been governed in the least by what has been 
done elsewhere. They have simply worked out a scheme to be effective, 
harmonious and to please the most artistic sense, to meet a demand for 
something different, something new, and something unique. 

Many of the great buildings of Los Angeles were visited and examined, 
amongst others that of the 

Los Angeles Express 

As befitted the oldest daily newspaper in Los Angeles — oldest in point 
of years, but still the most youthful in respect of vigor. The Express took 
a leading and conspicuous part in the welcome Los Angeles gave to the 
H. M. M. B. A. Its accurate reports of the proceedings of the convention, 
of the many and delightful informal events associated with it, and of the 
numerous gayeties in which the delegates individually and collectively par- 
ticipated, were received with an appreciation that generously rewarded The 
Express for all its effort to meet the requirements of that memorable 
occasion. 

Few who come to Los Angeles fail to make favorable acquaintance with 
The Express, for it is one of the few newspapers of the country that is truly 
self-respecting, honorable, unpurchasable, and written with the real good of 
the mass of the people at heart. 

Los Angeles is rightly regarded as a winter resort of great attractive- 
ness. When the East and Xorth are wrapped in ice, here the fields are 
green, the trees in leaf and flowers in blossom. Earth, air and sky combine 



120 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

to create a paradise. All know how delightful Los Angeles is in the winter 
season, but relatively few know of its incomparable summers. 

AMien in other climes the blizzards blow and the very pavements crack 
with cold, it is yet possible to guard against the blast behind double win- 
dows in an atmosphere fed with a furnace or warmed by radiators. When 
summer comes with its high temperatures and steamy humidities, there is 
no avoidance of discomfort. Cold can be shut out, but not the heat, and 
often the hot, humid nights, succeeding the hot, saturated days, occasion 
prolonged suiTering from which there is no refuge either in the mountains 
or by the sea. 

The rainless summers in Los Angeles are cool seasons of superb exhilara- 
tion. Rarely comes a day that gives discomfort, never a night when a 
blanket is not a desirable addition to the coverings of the bed. ^^"hen the 
Los Angeles summers come to be known for what they are as widely as 
are the winters of Los Angeles, then the number of winter visitors will be 
multiplied many times in the hosts that will come for the summer months. 
The strip of land that runs in Southern California between the mountains 
and the sea is an earthly paradise in winter, but in the long cool summer 
season, with its pleasant days and delightful nights, it is a paradise. 

The Natick House 

The Natick House, located on the corner of First and Alain streets, and 
extending considerably on each street, is one of the older hotels of Los 
Angeles. It is one of the less pretentious, but eminenth' comfortable, well- 
conducted, and high-class family, commercial, and transient hotels. When Mr. 
Hart. Senior, died in 1890, the business was taken by his two sons, George 
A. (then 21 years old) and Dwight H. (17 years old), and in a few years, 
such was their energy, push, and ability that the business far outgrew its 
capacity. A new story was added to the hotel, and it was otherwise enlarged 
and improved, many thousands of dollars being expended upon it. And yet 
it was not large enough. The Hart Bros, had struck the secret of successful 
hotel conducting. Their rooms were clean, light, airy and well cared for. 
their lobby bright, cheerful and busy, but to their dining-room they gave 
the chief thought and care. They were indefatigable and assiduous in their 
care for the gastronomic needs of their guests. Personally making their 
morning purchases from the best markets, sparing no pains or expense 
always to get the best there was, and then personally seeing that it was 
cooked, dished up and served in the most pleasing manner, commensurate 
with the very reasonable charge made, they soon gained a reputation that 
has extended across the Sierras into every town, city, ranch and mining 
camp of Arizona, New Mexico. Nevada and Southern California. 

The Natick is run on both the American and European plans, and the 
rates are, American, $1.50 to $2..^0 per day, European, 50c to $2.00. 

They have also always run a free bus to and from all the railway depots, 
and now as their business has so much increased they have added a large 
and speedy automobile bus. 




GEORGE A. HART. 
Of H^irt Bros., Proprietors The Natiok and The Rosslyn, Los Angeles, California. 



Gecrge A. Hart is one of the phenomenal 
successes in the hotel world of Los Angeles. 
On the 5th of April, isro. his father died. He 
was then 21 years of age. He and his brother 
Dwight took charge of the Natick and for over 
Twenty years have conducted it. adding a new 
story to it, and enlarging and improving con- 
stantly to meet the ever-increasing trade. 
Several years ago, their business at the Natick 



having "overflowed," they purchased the Ross- 
lyn, later adding to it the Lexington, and are 
doing the best general business in the city. 
Tlie dining service of the Natick and the Ross- 
lyn are Mr. Hart's chief pride. He says: "We 
do not need to advertise ordinarily. Our 25- 
cent meals at the Natick are the constant ad- 
vertisement of our hotels." 



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TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 123 

Hotel Rosslyn 

As soon as their business so increased that the Xatick was altogether 
inadequate to their necessities they purchased the Rosslyn. This hotel is 
at 443 South ]\Iain street, and a newer and more modern structure than the 
Natick. With that enlarged sense of what a good hotel needs, Mr. George 
Hart began at once to make the changes and improvements that he saw 
the Rosslyn required, and to give personal attention to its management. In 
a few months it rewarded his supervision so materially that it was necessary 
to purchase an adjoining hotel, the Lexington, merge it into the Rosslyn, 
and now the combined hotels have two hundred and eighty-five rooms, of 
which one hundred and twenty-five have their own private bath. Flowing 
hot and cold water, telephone service, and all other modern conveniences 
in each room, give an adequate idea of the progressive management of this 
first-class hotel, and the prices are within the reach of all. The Rosslyn 
is conducted on both the American and European plans, and its rates are : 
European, 75c to S2.30, American, $1.75 to $3.00. 

So well have the Hart Bros, earned their success, that no one envies 
them their good fortune, and their names have long been the stimuli to the 
youth of the city, when an example of thrift, industry, sticking to business 
and energy was required. 

The Van Nuys Hotel, Los Angeles 

The \'an Xuys is one of the most exclusi\-e of the hotels of Southern 
California. Its patrons are of the permanent kind who, knowing that they 
are getting the very best that lioteldom can ])roviile them, prefer to keep 
their patronage constant. 

It is one of the absolutely fireproof structures of Los Angeles, having 
been built a few years ago by I. X. ^'an Xuys, one of the city's retired 
capitalists. Such special attention has always been paid to the cuisine and 
service that it is safe to saj- that no hotel in California, save the Palace and 
Fairmont in San I'rancisco, has as wide a reputation among e]iicures. Its 
present proprietors and managers, Messrs. Potter and Knapp, have had no 
difficulty in sustaining the enviable reputation the \'an Xuys has always 
enioved. Its capacious dining-room is daily filled to its utmost capacity and 
a large proportion of the most refined of tourist trade that visits Los Angeles 
may always be found hospitably housed under its roof. 

The Sierra Madre Club 
While in Los Angelus a number of the members of the H. M. M. B. A. 
visited the Sierra Madre Club, one of the newer organizations of the 
city — for the purpose of learning something about the wonderful "Lake 
View gusher," which has been astonishing the old world for so long. The 
Pennsylvania contingent especially were interested. This "gusher" is the 
greatest oil well the world has ever known. It is situated in the "Midway" 
District, in the San Joaquin Valley, and "came in" on March 15, 1910. In 
a moment the workmen knew something wonderful had happened. The 
heavy tools were blown up against the crown block and after being held 




The Van Nuys Hotel, Fourth St. Elevation antl Entrance, Los Ange'es, Cal. 



TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC C(_)A5T 125 

there for a da}- by the sheer force of the stream gradually wore down the 
derrick until, on the second day, a fiercer gust broke down all obstacles 
and demolished the entire structure. Then began the terrific fight against 
great odds, a fight that is still being waged, wrote the editor of the Los 
Angeles "JNIining Review" on May 28, on this — the seventy-fifth day of the 
geyser's life. All sorts of eiTorts have been made. A few weeks ago cribbing 
of 12x12 solid timbers were erected around the mouth of the well and a raft 
of similar timbers held over the mouth in an effort to hold the jet down 
and thus save the excessive waste. For a few days the contrivance held its 
o\\'n. but on the fifty-seventh day the moorings gave way and once more 
the stream mounted several hundred feet in the air and daubed the country 
black. Through the courtesy of Mr. Harry Weir, we are permitted to 
reproduce the original picture taken a few hours after these obstacles were 
blown away and it is reproduced on another page. It will be noticed that a 
portion of the cribbing is still standing, thus giving our readers an excellent 
idea of the work accomplished b_y man after strenuous effort and carried 
awa}'. by Nature in the twinkling of an eye. 

Prior to ]May of 19G8, the ground made famous by the great Lakeview 
gusher was merely desert land, distinguished in no way from the other 
thousands of acres that have since felt the resurrecting touch of natural 
wealtli. In the first sixty days of its existence it added practicallv a million 
and a half dollars to the new wealth of the world. 

After months of struggle against lack of capital and the conspirations of 
.Vature, four men, three of theni under forty years of age, were lifted to 
financial safety by the great upheaval that sent thousands of barrels of crude 
oil scattering to the four Avinds and A\hicli has since poured out wealth at 
the rate of 50,000 barrels a day. All records of production have been sur- 
passed by the giant geyser that still spouts its black fluid with terrific 
strength, and all the ingenuit}' of man has lieen called into futile plav in an 
effort to control it and save the immense output that is of necessit\- in 
some measure lost. 

For many acres around, the absorbent sands have been saturated, and day 
and night the struggle for supremacy has been carried on with puny man 
and all his ingenuity pitted against a genuine freak of Nature that laughs 
at his futile efforts and still coughs up its treasure with a noise that resem- 
bles the hiss and roar of some subterranean Inferno. Time and again de\ices 
have been used to control the flow, but in each case the force of the updrive 
from the bowels of the earth has torn down all contrivances and, as if in 
devilish glee, the tremendous flow spouted up again towards the heavens 
with a deafening roar heard for miles. 

The owners of this wonderful well are John M. Dunn, Parker Barrett, 
Julius Fried and A. E. Hodgkinson, all of Los Angeles. 

Another of the prominent mining men of Los Angeles is E. A. I\Iont- 
gomerv. known to his friends and the mining world as "Bob." ]\Ir. Mont- 
gomer\- is the president i>f the Sierra Madre Clul), of which Mr. Sidney 



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127 



Xormaii, the editor of the Los Angeles "'Alining Review," is secretary. It 
was this ckib that planned and snccessfnlly carried ont the National Mining 
Congress' Thirteenth Annual Convention in Los Angeles, September 26, to 
October 1, 1910. This club, the tirst mining club ever organized in anv 
first-class city of the United States, was started in May, 1909. It was 
designed to make a meeting place for the mining men of the Southwest, and 
to provide a home of welcome for \-isiting operators from the surrounding 
mineral country. It now has upwards of 300 members, and is contemplating 
the erection of a million-dollar clubhouse of its own, which will doubtless 
come to fruition in due time. 




SIDNEY NORMAN. 



Sidney Norman i-ame to Los Angeles a few 
yeai-s ago to become Mining Editor of tlie Los 
Angeles "Times." After successfully conduct- 
ing this work for some time he became the 
editor and proprietor of the Los Angeles "Min- 
ing Review," now in its 27tli volume. He was 
the chief mover in the organization of the 
Sierra Madre Club, has been its secretary since 
its inception, and is especiall.v acti\'e in pro- 



moting its welfare and everything that seelss 
the interests of the mining men of the South- 
west. He was the chairman of the Committee 
of Arrangements for tlie thirteenth convention 
of the National Mining Congress, and to him 
more ttian to any otiier one man was owing 
the great success of that important and influ- 
ential meeting. 




E. A. (-Bob") MONTGOMERY 



Mr. E. A. ("Bob") Montgomery, one of the 
nii'st iinimlar and widely known mining men 
of the Southwest wlio now makes his head- 
quarters in Los Angeles. He located the 
Montgomery-Shoshone mines at Rhvolite in 
September. 1904, and, after developing the 
property to the 300-toot level, sold it for a 
large sum to Mr. Charles M. Schwab and his 
associates. With the capital so derived he 
purchased the Skidoo mines in the Pana- 
mint Range, in May, 1306, and has spent 
several hundred thousand dollars in providing 
the property with a ten-stamp mill and in 
tjringing water from Telescope Peak. The 
mine is now producing at the rate of If2.i.000 



a month and plans for the enlargCTnent of the 
plant are under way. Mr. Montgomery first 
\isited Los Angeles in 1S91, when he was 
called upon to e.xamine the Silverado mines, in 
Orange county, and since that time has been 
a frequent visitor until last year, when he de- 
cided to remove to the city permanently. He 
has been engaged in practical mining since 
1885, and a great portion of that time has been 
spent in Nevada and the desert portion of Cal- 
ifornia. Mr. Montgomer>' maintains offices in 
the Security Building and is foremost in all 
public movements designed for the benefit of 
the mining industry. He is the president of 
the .Sierra Madre Club. 



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129 




F. G. Howlaml, late Proprietor La Pintoresca. Pasadena, Cal. 



F. G. Howland, late proprietor of the Pinto- 
resca Hotel, is pretty nearly a natiye Califor- 
nian. having arrived here thirt>*-five years ago. 
At that time he devoted himself to ranching, 
making horticulture his chief suit, and gaining 
such a reputation in and around Los Angeles 
that he was appointed Quarantine Guardian 
of Horticulture for the State, which important 
ofhce he held for twelve or fourteen years. 
In ISOS he hought Hotel La Pintoresca. but 
while he gave large attention to the hotel, it 
can be seen that his chief interest was in the 
out-door life. In 1309 he was sent for by the 
Mexican Government to make a study of the 
conditions and report upon the horticultural 



and agricultural resources of tlie country, and 
as the result he has just concluded negotia- 
tions with the sister republic whereby they 
give him control of an immense ranch, 97,000 
acres in extent, with nine miles of frontage on 
the coast of Sonora. This land has so favor- 
able a location that 40.000 acres of it can at 
once he planted out for alfalfa, which grows 
profitably without irrigation. Mr. Howland has 
already made such a pronounced success witli 
large undertakings that there is no doubt but 
that this will he another of those fortunate 
enterprises that will bring him. and those who 
are wise enough to associate with him. large 
llnancial returns. 



130 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 

A visit was made to the Chamber of Commerce, and there, Frank Wig- 
gins, the most active and well-known civic promoter of California, presented 
each of the guests with a beautiful souvenir booklet, full of exquisite 
pictures of Los Angeles and containing" the following: 

"Front !" 

By Paul G_yllstrom 

Front, Los Angeles, front! They're here — 

Hosts of the land are your guests for to-day. 
Come to this valley of mellow cheer, 
, Where fairest sunshine and breezes play. 

Front, Los Angeles, front! Well, well. 

Here's Jini and Harry, Bill, Dick and Fred. 

Many a yarn they will have to tell 

Of folks and things long out of my head. 

Front, Los Angeles, front ! Just show 

Them the room Golden — next to the sky. 
Fellows, none better, want 'em to know 

That hospitality's ever our cry. 

Front, Los Angeles, front I Take that call ; 

Do it in the good old Los Angeles way. 
Show that you're King Boniface of them all — 

Hosts of the land are your guests for to-day. 

"Front !" 

"Front" is the word of electric energy which animates Los Angeles in 
hospitality, in industry, in commerce, in banking, in building by the mile 
from the mountains to the sea, and in providing princely welcome to all 
visitors in the Key City of the Sunny Southland. 

Los Angeles, with present population of 350,000 to 400,000, is at the 
Front as the most comfortable and enchanting summer resort in the whole 
world, and it is in Los Angeles that the people of the frigid regions of all 
countries find greatest delight in sojourning during the winter months. 

"Front"— 

In Los Angeles sunstroke is unknown. 

There are no hot nights. 

In the shade it is always cool. 

On the sunny side of the street it is summer; on the shady side will be 
found the temperature of the spring and fall seasons. 

A blanket or equal CDvering is necessary every night in summer. 



TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 131 

"Front"— 

Los Angeles, the City of the Angels, is the center of greatest variety of 
pleasures to be found in the world. 

From the center of the city it is less than 40 minutes' ride in elegant 
electric cars to the Pacific Ocean and a dozen splendid seaside resorts, or to 
the foothills and the mountains and at all points ample provision is made 
for the entertainment of the people. 

Surf bathing, fishing, baseball, tennis, golf, polo, marathon contests, and 
all descriptions of out door sports and pleasures are indulged in the year 
around. 

Trips to Catalina Island, the coast, the canyons and mountains woo and 
charm tourists and residents alike at all seasons. 

"Front"— 

Truly, Los Angeles is a wonderful city, unparalleled in growth and 
energy — not only a summer and winter resort, but one of the most enter- 
prising industrial and commerical centers of the entire Pacific Slope region. 

"Front"— 

Los Angeles is distinguished as the first city in America to hold an 
Aviation Meet, where the world's record for high flying was broken, with 
the great events witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people in the month 
of January under perfect conditions. 

"Front"- 

Jot these facts down in your memory, good friends, and welcome visitors 
to the land of sunshine and flowers : 

Los Angeles has one of the most influential and hospitable business 
men's organizations in the land in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 
with its representative membership of three thousand active boosters. This 
organization is the "Glad Hand" club of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- 
fornia. It maintains a permanent exhibit of the products of the Southland 
in its own building, besides keeping up a similar exhibit on a smaller scale 
at Atlantic Cit}-, and making known the fact that California is on the map 
at all national and at many of the international expositions. In the parlors 
of the Chamber all of the distinguished men of the nation and foreign 
countries who have visited Los Angeles have been given the "Glad Hand" of 
welcome and addresses of national interest have been delivered. 

Los Angeles justly prides herself on the size and magnificence of her 
splendid hotels and other facilities of entertainment. Despite the rapid 
growth of the city, successful eft'orts have been made in building hotels for 
the crowds. Even now expenditure of nearly $3,000,000 is being made for 
the enlargement of present hotels and for the erection of new hotels. 

Theaters and other places of entertainment day and night abound, and 
provision is made for trips to the mountains and the sea at all hours, while 
the allurements of auto journeys over solid roads are irre^^istible. 

Two iiuportant pages of this booklet read as follows: 



132 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. :\I. B. A. 

A Few Things We Want You to Know 

That the city of Los Angeles is the most comfortaljle summer resort in 
the whole world. Sunstroke is unknown. There are no hot nights. In the 
shade it is always cool. A blanket or equal covering is necessary every 
night in summer. From the center of the city it is less than 40 minutes ride 
to the Pacific Ocean and a dozen splendid seaside resorts, or to the moun- 
tains and an equal number of mountain hotels. There are 13 large theaters 
open every night in the }ear that among them give at least three matinees 
daily. There are 30 moving picture shows, and two amusement parks open 
all the time. There are thirty different trolley trips and a hundred different 
automobile drives. 

That Los Angeles is spending $23,000,000 (voted 10 to 1) to bring an 
abundant supply of pure water 220 miles to the city, and that more and 
better water, in less time and at less expense than was estimated will be the 
result about June 1, 1912. Los Angeles will spend from three to five millions 
in power plants along this great aqueduct, and from the sale of electric 
power generated will not only pay for all power expenditures, but will also 
in a very few years (probably by 1923) pay olT the entire debt of $23,000,000 
and interest authorized to bring the water. 

That Los Angeles Harbor at San Pedro, recently ( iiy a vote of 70 to 1) 
made a part of the city of Los Angeles, is absolutely safe for the largest 
sea-going vessels and can be entered safely in any kind of weather. That it 
is the logical harbor for the trade of the Orient, when the Panama canal 
shall have been completed. The city of Los Angeles has promised to spend 
$10,000,000 in the next ten years on the further improvement of this great 
harbor. 

That Los Angeles County voted (3 to 1 ) and is now spending $3,500,000 
for a permanent system of good roads connecting the citv with every part 
of the county. 

In Los Angeles County at Los Angeles, San Gabriel and San Fernando, 
are three Old Franciscan Missions. At Santa Barbara, San Buena \'entura. 
San Luis Obispo, San Juan Capistrano, San Diego, San Luis Rey (all in 
Southern California) are other equally ancient, historical and interesting 
missions, each deser\-ing of a special visit. 

All over Southern California are hundreds of Orange and Lemon groves, 
in some of which the golden yellow fruit can be seen each and every month 
of the year. Ripe Figs, Pomegranates, Loquats, Guavas, Bananas and Pine- 
apples can be pulled from growing trees or plants in proper season. 

^^'ithin two hours' ride from Los .Angeles there are more than 60 towns 
and cities having from 500 to 35,000 population. All are worth visiting. 
Many are tinique and historically attractive : others are far famed because 
of their beautiful homes, orange orchards, ocean bathing and fishing and 
splendid tourist hotels. Among them are San Gabriel and San Fernando, 
Pasadena, Hollywood, Covina, Long Beach, Venice, Ocean Park, Redlands, 
Riverside and Catalina. 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 133 

That Los Angeles has the best hotel accommodations in the United 
States. First-class and family hotels, advantageously located throughout 
the city, can care for 100,000 guests. Now building a $2,000,000 addition to 
one of the largest hotels in the city. 

That Los Angeles is immediatel_v surrounded by an exceptionally fertile 
and productive country. Products for the last 12 months are as follows: 
Citrus fruits, 38,000 carloads; vegetables, carloads — celery, 2,000; cabbage, 
500; tomatoes. 125; potatoes, 250; onions, 150; cauliflower, 300; nuts, 
8,000 tons; cantaloupes, 1,400 carloads; raisins and dried fruits, 9,000 tons; 
butter, 6,000,000 lbs.; cheese, 950,000 lbs.; eggs, 100,000 cases; canned 
goods. 500,000 cases; olives, pickled 1,000,000 gals., olive oil, 500,000 gals.; 
beet sugar, 135,000,000 lbs.; wine and brandy, 7.500.000 gals.; petroleum, 
53,000,000 bbls. : beans, 44,000 tons. 

That Southern California has an unlimited supply of cheap fuel oil and 
electrical power, which together with its all-the-year-around "out of doors" 
climate, its three transcontinental railroads and its splendid harbor ( within 
the city limits) makes Los Angeles and vicinity ideal locations for all kinds 
of manufactories. 

That Los Angeles has the best Electric (urban and interurban) railroad 
system in the world, and that it has 50 per cent more interurban electric 
train departures each day, than there is from Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, 
Toledo, Dayton, Indianapolis, Ft. ^^'ayne and Springfield combined. 

How We Grow 

Population of Los Angeles. 1900, 102,000; 1909, 350.000. 

Postage Stamps Sold, 1900, $245,000; 1909, $1,250,000. 

Bank Clearings. 1900, $115,000,000; IWJ, $675,000,000. 

Building Permits, 1900, $2,517,996; 1901, $4,381,855; 1902, $9,612,331; 
1903, $13,046,438; 1904, $13,400,062; 1905, $15,482,067; 1906, $18,158,497; 
1907, $13,275,943; 1908, $9,934,298; 1909, $12,700,000; an average of over 
$1,300,000 per month for the last eight years. 

Building Permits for March, 1910, $1,716,921. 

Bank Clearings for March, PnO, $73,350,265.90. 

That Los Angeles has : 

Banks — Commercial and savings. 33; total capital and surplus, $20,000,000; 
deposits, $110,000,000; clearances for 1909, $675,000,000: an increase of 
$150,000,000 over 1908. 

Schools — Public school buildings, including State Normal, 113: teachers, 
1,275; school children enrolled, 50,000; miscellaneous private schools and 
colleges, 40. 

Parks— Public parks, 22. One of which, containing over 3,000 acres, is 
the largest municipal park in the world. 

Churches — All denominations, 225. 

That Southern California has one of the largest oil deposits in the world. 
The output for the past year was upwards of 53,000,000 barrels crude oil. 



134 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. iJ. A. 

That every year Los Angeles is adding big industrial plants. One com- 
pany during the past year expended $1,000,C00 for buildings and modern 
machinery. 

Los Angeles city and county has hundreds of miles of asphalted streets 
and oiled roads for automobiling. 

That Los Angeles has two telephone companies serving over 68,000 sub- 
scribers ; equivalent to a telephone for each family. 

That Los Angeles is the best all-the-year-around convention city in the 
United States. 

That Los Angeles has no equal as a winter resort and entertains more 
tourists than any other city, anywhere. 

That the summer climate of Los Angeles is no less admirable than its 
winter climate. 

That it costs no more — perhaps not as much — to live in Los Angeles as 
in other American cities. 

That Los Angeles is the greatest shipping point in the world for oranges, 
beans and olive oil. and the greatest lumber port in the United States. 

That Los Angeles supports more automobiles than any other city of its 
size. 

That Los Angeles manufactories number over 1.500 and employ over 
12,000 men. 

That Los Angeles will be a city of 1.000,000 population in 10 to 15 years. 

The Benham Indian Trading Co. 

There were several members of the party while in Los Angeles expressed 
their desire to purchase Navaho blankets. Indian baskets and other similar 
curios. Knowing my interest in such things, they naturally appealed to 
me. and several blankets and baskets were taken home by happy collectors 
as a consequence. Not keeping a stock of these things myself, I took them 
to the Benham Company, which, to me. is doing one of the most interesting 
branches of business in the West. This house, which is the largest in the 
country, is located at 514 South Hill street, Los Angeles. It is the whole- 
sale depot from which the collectors and museums of this country and 
Europe are supplied. 

The company is interested in twelve trading posts on the dififerent Indian 
reservations, and can offer their customers an assortment of personally 
selected Navaho rugs which can not be seen elsewhere. If you buy of them 
vou are sure to get the genuine Navaho weave with best patterns and staple 
colors, transplanted from the squaw"s desert home to yours, and rich with 
interesting traditions. 

It is a pleasure for me to refer to the work of this company, for it is 
one of the few companies that has traded with the Indians of America 
without exploiting them. On the other hand, they have striven for their 
benefit. The^• have long realized that the time has come when radical steps 
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135 



its truest significance, and to cId this the Indians must be discouraged in the 
use of the many hued commercial dyes so prevalent in the past few years 
and gradually be brought back to the old style colors and designs, that were 
so full of meaning. \\'ith this end in view they have had a New York 
chemist experimenting with dyes, the object being to reproduce the old 
colors in dyes that were absolutely fast. They have also loaned several of 
their best blankets to the weavers to lie used for patterns. With endless 
perseverance they have fully instilled the idea into the heads of the weavers 
adjacent to their trading posts and as a result their blankets are entirely 
free from objectionable features. 




Fine Indian Basliet.s, in tlie collection of the Benhani Inilian Trading Co., 

Los Angeles. 



Specimens of these fine weave blankets were exhibited in the Anthrop- 
ology Building at the \\'orld's Fair in St. Louis, and a grand prize was 
awarded the Benham Company by the superior jury of scientists for their 
beautiful blankets. As they deal direct with the Indians their facilities are 
unrivaled and thev can offer their customers the best inducements as to 
price, variety and qualitv. The modern fine weave and modern Bayetta 
blankets can only be had at one of their stores. Their assortment of the 
coarser Xavaho rugs such as are sold in other stores is very large and in 
a great variety of patterns. They are all personally selected of stable 
colors only and are the best products of Indian art in weaving. They also 
carrv a varied assortment of old Bayetta?, chiefs' robes, squaw dresses and 
Chimallo Indian blankets. 



136 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

In addition they have one of the finest stocks in existence of Indian 
baskets, which, to select customers, they will send out on approval. I will 
personally guarantee that whatever they send, be it blanket, basket, rug or 
beadwork, it will be genuine Indian, and the price will be as reasonable as 
any in the trade. 




Extraordinary Design on a fine Yol<ut Basket, in Collection of Benliani Indian 
Trading Co., Los Angeles. 

An Extraordinary Repousse Artist 

Mankind has always desired to perpetuate in some permanent form the 
facial and other characteristics of those it has delighted to honor. To this 
we owe the vast number of statues, paintings, bas-reliefs, bronzes and the 
like that belong to every progressive country from the earliest times down 
to the present day. It is the secret of the rock-hewn temples found on the 
banks of the Upper Nile, and one of the strong motives that led to the 
erection of the magnificent temples on the Lower Nile. Sculptured bas 
reliefs of the great Pharaohs and kings of Egypt are found in large number 
together with tablets representing distinct historic scenes, in which these 
great monarchs of antiquity took important parts. This desire to perpetuate 
one's facial characteristics was one of the strongest motives in the embalming 
of the bodies of the dead of Egypt's great men, and in it is the ulterior 
motive of the erection of the vast pyramids. 

In China and Japan the casting of bronzes, and the carving of wood, 
stone, ivory, etc., have been carried on as a high art for many centuries. 
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nent memorial of the great ones who have passed away. In the jungles of 
India, in the sandy wastes of Asia Minor, where ancient temples have been 
found and explored, scores of carvings of human features have been found, 
and in Rome, the triumphal arches bore carefully sculptured bas-reliefs, 
giving pictorial representation of the Caesars and generals in whose honor 




Bas Relief in Copper, of George Wliarton James. iii;m 



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they were erected, and important scenes in their triumphant careers. 
The sculptured statues of Greece and Rome arc all that remain to us to 
suggest the appearance of Ilomer, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, \'irgil and other 
of the notable-s — statesmen, warriors, poets, philosophers — of those earlier 
days, and even when painting on wood and canvas became common, so that 
portraits could be preserved with reasonable fidelity, the ease with which 
canvas could be destroyed still led men to prefer the more indestructible 



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media, when they wished to preserve their features for the benefit and 
instruction of posterity. 

Only to the extremeh- wealthy, however, are sculptures, bronzes, marble 
bas-reliefs, etc., possible, and yet there are many who laudably desire either 
for themselves, or for others, the opportunity for the transmission to future 
generations of their facial characteristics. Of all methods, none has proven 
so successful as that of repousse work. This is the art of hammering out, 
in brass, copper or other metal, a relief of the object to be pictured and 
preserved. It was brought to the highest state of perfection by the Italian, 
Benevenuto Cellini, who was born in 1.^00 and lived for seventy years. His 
choice work is preserved in the royal treasuries of Italy, Portugal, Spain, 
I-'rance and Russia. Specimens are to be found, here and there, scattered 
throughout Europe. He combined artistic genius in conception with artistic 
skill and genius in execution, and the result is he placed upon the highest 
pedestal of the arts in metals his own great achievements. 

To reproduce a portrait, a true facial presentment, however, requires a 
peculiar genius. Many excellent workers in repousse who are able to make 
excellent landscapes or general representations of animals and the like 
utterly fail when they endeavor to make a portrait. Now and again an artist 
is found who possesses this usual gift to a greater or lesser degree. 

Los Angeles is fortunate in the possession, at the present time, of such 
an artist. He is Alfred de Wolffers, a refined and cultured Frenchman of 
good famili\'. who, in one of his exuberant feelings of democracy, cast loose 
from his titled associations in France and came and settled in this Xew 
World, where he felt that every man would be required to make his own 
way regardless of all adventitious facts of birth and so-called position. 
During his hours of idleness he had accpiired this art of repousse work, 
and now turned to it with serious earnestness as the means of his livelihood. 
In Washington, New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and later, in San 
Francisco, he achieved considerable fame and success. The accompanying 
portrait, done in hammered copper, of George Wharton James, the well- 
known explorer, author, and lecturer, is the product of his skill, and to those 
who need such a portrait, a memorial tablet, or anything of the kind that 
must endure exposure to the weather, withstand fire, and be of an enduring 
nature (without incurring the great expense of bronze casting), his work is 
especially commended. 

Commissions are respectfully solicited, and orders will be given personal 
and prompt attention. 

Address Wm. L. Judson, President Arroyo Guild of Fellow Craftsmen, 
College of Fine Arts. 212 Thorne street. Los Angeles. Cal., or M. Alfred de 
Wolffers in person, at the same address. 



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Carleton Gilbert, who managed llie Hotel Virginia during the visit of the H. :m. M. B. A. 



Carleton Gilbert was born at Jackson, Micli- 
igan. but for tlie past twelve years has been 
identifieil with hotel management on tlie 
Pacific Coast. He began at the Occidental, 
San FranciSLO. thence acquiring the manage- 
ment of The Sequoia, on Geary street, which 
he soon made a dividend payer. After the 
fire he went to the Potter at Santa Barbara 
and the Van Nuys in Los Angeies, wiience he 



acquired the Stetson, in Seattle, Wash. Here 
he was so successful that tlie Empire Hotel 
Co. engaged him to conduct the Butler Annex, 
which he did with entire success until called 
to the Virginia at Long Beach. Since the visit, 
of the H. M. M. B. A., however, he has taken 
a much-needed rest, and is now negotiating 
for one of the large hotels of Log Angeles. 



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A Side Trip to San Diego— Hotel Del Coronado 

While San Diego and Coronado Beach were not included in the regular 
itinerary on this trip, several of those who remembered the Seventeenth 
Annual ISanquet held at Hotel del Coronado, and many others who had 
heard of the fame of these places, or who had visited them before and 
wished to see them again, stole away from Los Angeles and ran down to 
the extreme southwestern corner of the United States. 

Hotel del Coronado is now under the management of Morgan Ross, who, 
without having rebuilt the hotel has so completely changed it that one feels 
himself in an entireh' new place as he recalls the Coronado of old. The 
old furnishings of every description have been discarded and new ones 
installed. Every modern device for comfort, luxury and convenience has 
been added, and such an entire change made in the general directorate of 
the hotel, grounds and surroundings, that the charm, pleasure and delight 
of a visit have been most materially enhanced. 

Hotel del Coronado is especially equipped for golf, the climatic condi- 
tions being so perfect that scarcely a day in the year passes without the 
enthusiast being able to play his favorite game with comfort. Tennis events 
here are of international importance and all the great players of the world 
appear on the courts. Coronado is one of the only places where archery is 
a regular pastime, and those who enjoy polo find in Mr. Ross an ex])ert in 
the game who has done much to foster it in California. The international 
tournament takes place here. There is also a fine mile track on which pony 
and horse races are held every season, and paper chases for cross-country- 
riding are regular events of the season. Automobile races and gymkhanas 
are held every winter, and clay-pigeon tournaments add to the out door 
festivities. The close proximity to Mexico also allows to hunters special 
privileges not obtainable in the LTnited States, gained through concessions 
from the Mexican Government to the management of Hotel del Coronado. 

Yet with all these sports I have not yet touched upon those provided by 
the water. With the bay on one side and the ocean on the other, the water- 
lover has everything that heart can desire. Yachting, boating, canoeing, 
fishing, swimming, marine sports of every kind are regularly provided. 

As for the rooms of Hotel del Coronado, everything that a perfect man- 
agement can suggest has been installed for the comfort of guests. The 
cuisine has already added many laurels to Mr. Morgan Ross's fame as one 
of the great hotel directors of the United States. 

The Grant Hotel, San Diego 

The visitors all returned to Los Angeles enthusiastic with what their 
brief trip south had revealed to them. They had anticipated much at Hotel 
del Coronado and had received more than they expected, but they were 
surprised beyond measure at the marked progress. During the last few 
years the city of San Diego has made a growth in population and a devel- 
opment in all material things that is simi)ly wonderful. .\ great number 




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of new Iniildings have recently been erected, such as the Union Building, 
ihe Public Lilirary, the magnificent High School and the Elks' Hall. The 
great department store buildings call forth praise, but surpassing them all 
in grandeur, excellence and magnificence is the New Grant Hotel. This 
hotel by its size, equipment and management at once leaps to the front rank, 
even among Southern California's noted hotels. Its owner has done his part 
in ]:)ro\-iding a building that \\-ould not suffer in comparison with the finest 
hotel buildings of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago or Boston, in this 
country, or of Paris, London or Berlin, in Europe. Just as U. S. Grant, 
general of the United States Army, and President of the United States, 
.-tood on an equality with any of the monarchs or generals of the old or 
new world, so does this new^ hotel at once and without question take its 
proper place as one of the "noted few." It is said by wide travelers to be 
ihe most beautiful concrete building in America. Much is said about 
buildings being fireproof. In the case of the U. S. Grant Hotel, there is 
absolutelv no wood in the building except the doors, which are of solid 
mahogany. It has 500 rooms, 350 of which have private baths. Its grill is 
called "Bivouac Grill," in remembrance of the many bivouacs of the army 
life of the great American general, after whom the hotel is named. It has 
eighteen arches in the walls, twenty-two feet long and ten feet high, with 
an exquisite oil painting fitted into each arch. Each painting represents 
one of the great nations. The ceilings, etc., are decorated with the flags, 
crests, coats of arms, etc., of the nations depicted, suggestive of the won- 
derfully cosmopolitan character of this great American nation, which is 
made up from the sturdy, the strong, the men of achievement and character 
of all nations. 

The Palm Court is an exquisitely beautiful and charmingly picturescpie 
feature of the hotel. It is fully equipped with furniture of the most cozy 
and comfortable description for lounging, resting, and the enjoyment of tea, 
after dinner cofTee, etc. Tea will be served each afternoon, at which rich 
and pleasing music will be discoursed by a Hungarian orchestra. The Roof 
Garden has no equal in the West, if in the world, and it is provided with 
open-air sleeping apartments for the growing number of intelligent and 
thoughtful travelers who have learned the peace, comfort and serenity that 
come from spending their sleeping hours under the silent stars. 

The hotel has a fully equipped Turkish bath with two plunges, each of 
fifty feet long, filled with salt water from the ocean warmed to a com- 
fortable and suitable temperature. 

It will thus be seen that it is as essentially a high class tourist hotel 
as anv one of the Florida Coast hotels, or the noted hotels of Switzerland. 
It is also admirablv adapted for the comfort and convenience of transients. 

The plaza directly in front of the hotel gives an added charm, and it 
contains a $25,CCO electric fountain, which is a feature few Western hotels 
can boast. Close at hand are the opera houses, theaters, and the shopping 
district. 



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Another feature of importance is the great Music Room on the tenth 
floor, built to comfortably accommodate 1,650 people at one time. On the 
ninth floor are two dining-rooms, so that conventions or other large gather- 
ings can be easily and conveniently handled without, in the slightest, 
disturbing the regular routine of the house. 

San Diego is thus prepared to give to many who have hitherto only 
heard of it, a taste of its vs'onderfully equable climate. There is nothing 
superior to it in the world, and confessedly so. The roads, too, are care- 
fully prepared and kept in order throughout the whole county, especially 
to give joy to automobilists. The hunting and fishing of San Diego is 
well known, and the golf course is second to none on the coast. 

Uniting his trained and experienced energies with the capital of Mr. 
Grant, the builder, that veteran hotelman of California, J. H. Holmes (who 
for upwards of twenty years made the fame of the Hotel Green, Pasadena, 
reach to the farthest confines of the traveling world) will have full charge 
of the operation of the hotel. The furnishings were installed under his 
competent direction, and the whole staft', from office to kitchen, is of his 
choice. To "those who know" and have traveled, nothing further need be 
said. 



CHAPTER V 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1910— PASADENA DAY 

The Cawston Ostrich Farm, Mount Lowe, The Raymond, Pasadena 

Wednesday, April 13, was certainly a most strenuous day. Shortly 
before 8 :30 everybody assembled at the Hotel Van Nuys, where Messrs. 
Potter and Knapp exerted themselves to make all feel at home and wish 
thev had been there all the time. Special cars then conveyed the jolly 
crowds to the Cawston Ostrich Farm, where Professor T. S. C. Lowe 
awaited them and met many of his old friends of the 1896 excursion. The 
ladies were divided as to which interested them most, the ostriches or the 
leathers in the salesroom. They mainly compromised on the latter. But 
all were profoundly impressed with the business-like sagacity and foresight 
of Air. Edwin Cawston, the founder of this farm, and the original promoter 
of the ostrich feather industry in America. Hotelmen of all others are able 
to appreciate foresight and initiative, so they were all pleased to know that 
in looking over the 

Cawston Ostrich Farm 

they were enjoying the original, the pioneer, the greatest and largest of all 
of its kind. It has long been one of the institutions of Southern California, 
and there is hardly a traveler or tourist who has visited Los Angeles, but 
has admired this unique and interesting establishment. In fact, the name 
of the Cawston Ostrich Farm has become so identified with Southern Cali- 
fornia, that in every part of the world the mention of one suggests the 
other. 

Located in South Pasadena, it occupies a picturesque and beautiful semi- 
tropical park of its own, and here, amid the flowers, palms and shrubber\-, 
the California ostrich lives, and thrives, and is the object of nnich curious 
and admiring attention. 

A place of interest, instruction and entertainment it is. to be sure, and 
one that adds much to the attraction of California, but the utility of the 
farm is not wholly to cater to the sightseeing public. It has a broader and 
more useful mission — that of raising the great birds for the feathers. For 
twentv-five vears or more the flock has been cared for, and grown until it 
is now the largest on the ^^'estern Continent, and in Southern California, 
the finest feather product of the world is produced at the Cawston. The 
exhibits of the farm have received medals and awards in every exhibition 
in the world where they have been on display. The plucking is done at the 
farm from the male birds only, and frequently this interesting operation 
has been done in public. They are made up in the factory on the farm. 




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and being only the feathers of the male birds, they possess life, luster, 
strength and beauty not to be found in other feather goods. 

So in addition to adding its attractiveness to the many places of interest 
in Southern California, the Cavvston Farm has provided an industry that 
adds many thousands of dollars each year to the resources of this section. 
The sale of the feathers reaches out over the world, and visitors from all 
parts of the country, and imm abroad, have taken them home from 
California. 

The Cawston Ostrich Farm was established in 1886 and sent its first 
exhibit of plumes to the Omaha E.xhibition in 1898, for which it was 
awarded First Prize. This was not so remarkable as its success of two 
vears later, when Cawston invaded France, the center of the ostrich feather 
industrv, and with his products, carried off the Gold Medal at the World's 
Exposition held in Paris. Since then, Cawston feathers have won prizes 
everywhere, ending their list of victories for the time being by taking the 
Grand Prize at the Seattle Fair, 1909. 

The products of the Cawston Ostrich Farm are not sold exclusively for 
millinery purposes. Many dainty toilet accessories, such as boas, muifs and 
fans are manufactured. These as well as the heavy plumes are much in 
vogue at all seasons and are sold locally at prices much more reasonable 
than those usually asked and obtained elsewhere. The ostrich eggs are 
also a popular souvenir. They are of an enormous size as compared with 
those of the common fowl, the average measurement being from four to six 
inches in diameter. Pictures of the birds themselves, views of the ostrich 
farms or of Southern California, hand-painted on the empty shell, make 
them an attractive and valuable memento. 

One of the most superbly appointed stores in Los Angeles is the city 
.salesrooms at No. 313 South Broadway, where the finished feather in all of 
its many beautiful styles makes a display not seen in any other store or city. 

The result of this visit undoubtedly will be that the visitors on this 
occasion, whenever they may need ostrich feathers, will deal directly with 
the Cawston Farm, of South Pasadena. 

Mount Lowe Railway 

Time was all too short, and few were ready to leave the Ostrich Farm 
when the call was made "All aboard for Mount Lowe." Passing through 
South Pasadena, and getting a beautiful view of sightly Hotel Raymond on 
the way, then on through Pasadena and Altadena, a half hour's delightful 
ride brought the visitors to Rubio Canyon, at the foot of the celebrated 
great cable incline of the Mount Lowe Railway. It is proper to say in 
passing that this railroad, conceived and built by Prof. T. C. S. Lowe nearly 
twenty years ago, has the world's record for safe operation, not one of the 
hundreds of thousands of visitors carried having ever been harmed or hurt. 
I-'urthermore, this incline railroad to simimit of Echo Mountai)! brought 
about a revolntii:)n in mountain railroad liuilding, and to-day no more 



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mountain roads are built on the old cog principle. The trolley leading 
from the summit of Echo Mountain to Alpine Tavern, on Mt. Lowe, a 
height of o\-er five thousand feet, has an c(|ualh' good record. 

In his "Hotel World" account of the trip, Henry J. Bohn thus writes: 
''While there are man}- mountain railroads now in the world, it is 
doubtful if there is another mountain trip by railroad more interesting or 
so Miteri. sting as is this one, and it is sincere!}- to be hoped that Prof. 




On the Car of the Great Cable Incline, Mt. Lowe Railway, Cal. 

Lowe's ambition to see the i'oad extended to Inspiration Point, a great 
i'Otel erected there and the Lowe Observator}- placed on the summit of 
Mt. Lowe, will be realized. There has been no more effective advertise- 
ment for Southern California than these wonderful railroads, constructed 
by this great inventor, and Los Angeles and vicinity could not make a 
better in\-estment than to help complete the original plans as formulated 
in the mind of Prof. Lowe. It was my pleasure to spend this day in the 
company of the veteran scientist and inventor, and though he has reached 
the allotted score of man in years, he is still hale and hearty, climbing the 
rugged mountain sides with apparent ease and as enthusiastic over his 
inventions and the future as if he were again a young man starting on his 
wonderful career." 



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Lunch at Hotel Raymond 

Satiated with sightseeing, yet reluctant to leave the "Heights," the 
crowd, getting hungry, piled into the cars and were speedily whirled back 
to the level and to the hotel as well known in the East as in the ^^'est — 
the Raymond. 

The first of Southern California's popular tourist hotels in point of time. 
the Raymond also proves that it is first in the hearts of its countrymen by 
the fact that the season of 1909-10 was the best in its history both' 
financially and in the character of its guests. Xot only did Andrew 




E. M. Tierne>" and Fi-ed A. Reed of New York, taking an aeroplane ride over Mt. Ll-w < 



Carnegie and ]\Irs. Russell Sage enjoy its hospitality for several weeks, but 
a list of notables whose names alone would fill several pages of this book 
also made it their California winter home. 

It was fitting, therefore, that the H. M. M. B. A. should visit the 
Raymond, and partake of luncheon after their happy day on Mount Lowe. 

Ascending the winding avenue to the hilltop crowned by the big hotel, 
passing brilliant ilower beds, then shrubberies and groves of trees with 
glimpses of far-ofif golf links, tennis courts and a distant panorama of super- 
lative loveliness, the visitors were enthusiastic in their appreciation, but 
far more so when a vision of the hotel and its outlook burst upon them. 

The broad veranda of the hotel was shielded by a huge awning of 
flowers. A wire netting fortA'-seven feet long and sixteen feet deep was 
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of scarlet geraniums, the inscription. "The Raymond \\'elcomes tlie M. M. 
M. B. A.," stood out in bold relief in letters of wliite carnations, four feet 
high, to greet the guests as they arrived at the carriage block. 

Beneath the awning, at either side of the white pillars of the entrance, 
were wells of flowers. They were formed of bricks made of candytuft and 
garlanded with pink ivy geraniums. 

I'rom floral beams, flower covered buckets were dropped into the wells, 
and appolinaris or California grape juice drawn from iced depths to refresh 
the thirstv tra\-elers. 




At Alpine Tavern. Ml. Lowe Ry., Cal. 

Professor T. S. C. Lowe 'wearing derby liat). Jolm H. Mitchell, the new president, Henry 
.1. Bohn and Geoige Wharton .iames. 



Within the lobby, flowers were used yet more lavishly. From a green 
canopy of asparagus fern which extended the length of the corridor to the 
music room and drawing room, rich red carnations were clustered in balls, 
and hung at intervals along the path. 

In the gold room, golden poppies Avere placed in rich confusion. The 
drawing room was decorated with hundreds and hundreds of red Magna 
Charta roses and standing eveiywhere in the pretty brown Japanese baskets 
which are a- distinct feature of California decoration. On the piano stood 
the beautiful trophy won by Mrs. Raymond at the last Tournament of 
Roses, a giant basket. It held one of the largest single bouquets of roses 
ever seen in the State. 



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WALTER RAY.MOXli, 
Proprietor Hotel Raymond, South Pasadena, Cal. 



Few men in Arnerica are so well known to 
the traveling world as Walter Raymond of the 
far-famed Rayinond Hotel. When Mr. Ray- 
mond's father engaged in conducting exclusive 
parties to the Pacific Coast he recognized the 
beauty of Pasadena, and erected the Raymond 
Hotel, on the most commanding knoll in the 
San Gabriel Valley, for the accommodation of 
his patrons. Its fame grew until it was too 



small to accommodate its guests, and this con- 
dition did not decrease when it came into Mr. 
Raymond's hands. Then fire destroyed it, and 
a new. modern, enlarged and more beautiful 
structure crowded Raymond Hill, and while the 
H. M. M. B. A. were present. Hotel Raymond 
was the home of Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Rus- 
sell Sage and many other of the world's 
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The dining-room entrance was concealed with a portiere of sweet peas. 
Ropes of smilax were threaded with fragrant delicate blossoms, thousands 
of them. The sweet peas used in this decoration alone comprised four 
thousand bunches, while fourteen thousand carnations were effectively 
l^laced throughout the hotel. 

An elaborate luncheon was served, during which George Wharton James 
presented Air. Walter Raymond, the host, to the visitors, who greeted him 
with hearty cheers. His little speech of welcome was a gem of good 



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in blossoms for "Pasadena Day," April 15, 1910. 

fellowship and good taste, and at once endeared him to all those who had 
not yet had the pleasure of meeting him. He was assisted in entertaining 
by his lovely and accomplished wife, who, later, in the ladies' banquet in 
Los Angeles, demonstrated her ability in more ways than one. 

The Raymond originally was built to accommodate the excursionists of 
the Raymond & Whitcomb Company, of Boston, Alass., and through its 
efforts many thousands of people made their first trip to the Land of the 
Sundown Sea. The present hotel, however, is an entireh- new structure, 
having been rebuilt four years ago. 

As one of the visiting members wrote : The Ra}mond is a beautiful 
structure, splendidly arranged, superbly furnished and elegantlv equipped. 
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anil is a splendid monument to the man whose name it l^ears. j\Ir. 
Raymond has no partner aside from his wife, a charming woman, cultured, 
refined, capable, brilliant in conversation and as energetic and enterprising 
as is Mr. Raymond himself. To her assistance is due, at least in a 
measure, the splendid success which has been scored in this well known 
hotel. It was while the H. Al. AI. 1!. A. hosts were at the Virginia Hotel, 
Long Beach, that iNIrs. Raymond won the hearts of the visitors. By special 
request she sang "Comin' Thro' the Rye" in a manner that charmed her' 
hearers, one and all. Mrs. Raymond has a delightful soprano \oice which 
shows the best of training and culture. This, with her charming personality, 




The Floral Awning at Hotel Raymond, South Pasadena, and the autoniobile.s ready to 
convey the H. M. M. B. A. for the ride through Pasadena. 



captivated her hearers and made her a favorite with all. Her rendition of 
this ever-popular selection constituted one of the most delightfully enjoyable 
features of the stop at the \'irginia at Long IJeach. 

On the menu card for the H. M. ]\I. B. A. luncheon were these words, 
which few, if any, of the visitors for one moment felt inclined to question 
as they looked out over the glorious panorama spread before them from 
the Raymond porch. 

"Tlic Raymond greets the members of the Hotel Men's ^lutual Benefit Association 
of the United States and Canada, and bids them welcome to Raymond Hill, the most 
beautiful hotel site in the world." 



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Of the hotel itself little need be said. Competent travelers and writers 
I rem all over the norld have sung its praises in genuine literature. Charles 
Dudley Warner, Kate .Sanborn, the \'an Dykes and many others have 
written in glowing terms of its location, its outlooks, its surroundings, its 
flowers, its homelikeness. In all that goes to make up the best of resort 
hotels, the Hotel Raymond stands side b}' side with the foremost. In some 
features its climatic surroundings gives it distinct advantage, as for instance, 
in its flowers. They are to be found everywhere, hundreds of varieties, with 
a wealth that to most Eastern travelers, seems wasteful and extravagant, 
for they abound all over the large estate. These are never cut. To furnish 
flowers for the public rooms, dining-room, guest rooms, etc., there are acres 
of carnations in the open, and in lath houses. Ten greenhouses are also 
maintained, one of which is for American I'leauty roses, the others for a 
variety of flowers too numerous to mention. To care for all this, si.xteen 
to twenty gardeners are emploA-ed. 

Directly below and in front of the hotel are the golf links, which experts 
have pronounced the finest in Southern California. Golf is a feature of the 
Raymond and it is the only hotel in Southern California which maintains 
its own links on its own estate. The clubhouse is but a step from the house, 
and w-ill be found attractive by lovers of the game. Clock golf, and a short 
six-hole court golf, are available for those who do not care for the exertion 
necessary to play on the regulation nine-hole course, but who wish light 
outdoor exercise. 

No wonder the members of the H. M. M. B. A. left the Raymond with 
regret. 

Through Pasadena to the Green and the Maryland 

After the luncheon at the Raymond, carriages, tally-hos and automobiles, 
provided by the Chamber of Commerce of Pasadena, conveyed the guests 
through this flower embowered paradise. Pasadena is confessedly the chief 
jewel of Southern California; let winter winds whirl the snow broadcast 
over the Eastern States, here the most smiling of summer suns greets one 
nearly every morning: and the gentlest breezes, odorous of orange blossoms, 
invite to out door pleasures. This is truly an ideal city, ideally located ; on 
every hand cozy homes nestle amid flowers massed in tropical profusion ; 
here and there stretch magnificent boulevards lined with palms and drooping 
banana-fronds : while up the distant slopes on every side mount laden orch- 
ards gleaming with golden fruit. 

Up and down Orange Grove avenue, Marengo avenue, and all the outlooks 
over the Arrovo Seco, to points which emphasized the beauty of valley, foot- 
hills, grand and majestic mountains, ocean and far away islands, the visitors 
were taken. All of them, especially those from Chicago, Father Throop's 
former home, were anxious to see the school that he founded, and hear some- 
thing of the work it is accomplishing. 

It is already recognized one of the leading educational institutions not 
onlv of I'asadena, but "i California. It was founded in 1891 by the 



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Hon. Amos G. Throop, honored and beloved in man)- places, but especially 
in Chicago. For many years it was the only western source of supply for 
teachers of manual training in the public schools. Now it aims to be purely 
a College of Technology and under the able presidency of Dr. James A. B. 
Scherer is rapidly working to that end. The old buildings in the heart of the 
city of Pasadena have been gi\-en over to the Throop Academy, an entirely 
separate school, administered separately, though the same Board of Trustees 
supervises both. The engraving shows the first of a group of fourteen build- 
ings which will ultimately form the college group. It was designed by 
Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, two of the leading and most original archi- 
tects of the West. It is but a portion of the administration building of the 
future Institute. The future wings will double its size. There is no wood 
in its construction save for its doors. Beneath the red tile roof is a concrete 
roof. The dome, floors and staircases of concrete. The walls are of concrete 
anil unburnable tile. It is fireproof and earthquake proof. Its cost was 
about $160,000. 

( ;\-er the three archways of the main entrance the eminent sculptor, 
.-\le.\ander Sterling Calder has placed three of his masterpieces expressive 
of nature, art. energy, science, imagination, and law. 

From this one new building the large scope of the far-reaching plans of 
the Trustees may well be understood. In the course of a few years Throop 
will more than rival, both in equipment of buildings, endowment, and 
especially in its staflf of progressive and advanced educators, many of the 
old world colleges and universities of a century ago. 

Regretting their time was so limited the visitors were now taken to 

Hotel Green 

that magnificent and world-famed structure that, growing larger and more 
splendidly equipped every year, has served as the Pasadena home of a large 
and growing Eastern, Southern, Xorthern and Alidcontinental clientele, who 
require in this quiet and beautiful city a resting place that affords all the 
refinement, comfort and lu.xury of the finest metropolitan hotels. The Hotel 
Green is the largest resort hotel in Califnrnia. It covers almost the entire 
area of two large city blocks, the west wing standing in its own park. 
Central Park is practically a continuation of Hotel Green Park, for a beau- 
tiful drive-way lined with exquisite flowering plants and shrubs, where a 
fountain constantly plays, is the connecting link between the two. 

It consists of three buildings known as the East, Center and West 
Buildings. The East Building is five stories high and constructed of brick 
and stone. In this building are located the main offices of the entire plant, 
the American plan dining-room and private theater. 

The Center Building is of Moorish design, six stories in height, and is 
constructed entirelv of steel, stone and brick, being absolutely fireproof. 
The walls are of steel and brick, the partitions and floors of channel iron and 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 163 

cement. The two buildings are connected by a covered steel archwav 200 
feet in length which crosses Ra^-mond avenue. 

The West Building is six stories, in which is located the European Cafe, 
Dutch and Colonial Dining Rooms and Romanesque Parlor. 

Hotel Green covers nearly two blocks ground space. It is surrounded by 
Parks, and the City Park of ten acres adjoins on the south; Hotel Green 
has over 500 sleeping rooms — 350 with baths, numerous parlors and card 
rooms ; has nine and one-quarter acres floor space, over one mile of halls 
leading to rooms, roof garden 50 by 225, a portion of which is enclosed in 
glass and filled with tropical plants. In the main hotel is a great central 
room with many restful lounging chairs ; opening from this is the reception- 
room, billiard-room, refreshment-room, dining-room, reading-room, and in 
easy reach are elevators and a graceful puente connecting the main building 
with the west building. The power house and all machinery are located 
600 feet from the hotel. 



Wliere Winter Never Comes. Hotel Green Gardens, Pasadena. Cal. 

It is scarcely necessary in speaking of the provisions for luxurious 
comfort made by the owner and manager of this incomparable hotel, that 
reference be made to the wealth of flowers, the semi-tropical luxuriance of 
the gardens and park, the towering and stately palms, the peculiar and 
fascinating Yuccas and Roses that greet the eye on every hand, nor the 
exquisite renditions by a first-class orchestra of the choicest selections of 
musical favorites — popular and classical — that enchant the ear. 

This magnificent hotel was erected and is owned by Colonel G. G. Green, 
who, every year, accompanied by his family in their elegant private palace 



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car, come from the East to enjoy their beautiful California home at 
Altadena. Colonel Green has been exceedingly fortunate in the managers 
of his palatial hostelry, having retained the services of one manager for 
fourteen years, and now having secured those of Mr. David B. Plumer, of 
BriarcliiT Lodge, Briarcliff Manor. N. Y., and formerly of Laurel House and 
Laurel-in -the-Pines, Lakewood, N. ]. His assistant is ;\Ir. D. P. Simpson, 
of Edgewood Inn. Greenwich, Conn., formerly of the Laurel House, Lake- 
wood. X. J. With this team of well known hosts there can be no question 
as to the maintenance of the position of Hotel Green. Indeed, in their 
hands, and with vast improvements in the hotel which have taken all the 
summer of 1910 to complete it is assured that the season of 1910-11 will 
surpass any in the Hotel Green's history. 




Hotel Green, Pasadena, Cal., Col. G. G. Green. Owner. 



The guests were cordially received liere by Colonel Green and Mr. and 
Mrs. D. P. Simpson and each refreshed and given a handy leather card case 
and a beautiful souvenir of the hotel. 

In looking over the registers of Hotel Green one can find the autographs 
of all the noted people of the world who have visited California in the past 
twenty years. Naturally no thoughtful visitor comes to California without 
giving Pasadena an important place in his itinerary, and on reaching Pasa- 
dena his resting place neccssaril\- was Hotel Green. Hence the autographs 
of ]M-esidents and presidents' wives, princes, princesses, governors in gen- 
eral, and general governors, ambassadors, statesmen, poets, orators, novelists, 
merchant princes, captains of industry and so many millionaires that one can 
find their autographs by the thousand. And to-day Hotel Green still is the 
chosen home for all the notables and dignitaries of the world who come sight- 
seeing to this (;od-fa\orcd city. 



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165 




Amnng the Flowers in the ]Jotel Green Patio. Pasadena. Cal. 



Hotel Maryland 

Thi'^ the newest of Pasadena'.-^ finer hotel.'^, is located on a broad avenue 
lined with beantitul residences, and is surrounded by deep lawns, flowering 
shrubs and trees in a land of flowers. In the country on- ever}' side and 
growing even within Pasadena itself, are orange groves, and the air is full 
ol tluir pungent sweetness during all the long mo.iths of their blossoming 
time. 

Within there was something delightfullv restful and refreshing in the 
quiet decorations artistically but unobtrusively ])laced about the spacious 
lobbies. A single Japanese basket of exquisite |)iuk roses decorated the long 
table in the writing room. Xear the elevator stood a table which was 
covered with an inunense basket trav filled with shiny fruit, garlanded with 
crisp, fragrant orange blossom branches. It was a jiicture. .\t the end of 
the lobby, near the Japanese room was an inviting tea table, with a steam- 
ing samovar. Pleasant maids in \vhite were soon bu.sy offering the most 
refreshing beverage of that hour, the cup that cheers, but does not inebriate. 
The piece de resistance, however, was the huge crystal topped table with 
its vase of red roses mirrored into nuun- blossoms. .About the talde were 



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167 



crystal platters filled with long stemmed luscious strawberries, little crystal 
bowls of powdered sugar invitingly near. Strawberries are always a lure, 
and the perfection of the fruit offered at the [Maryland created ahiiost a raid. 
These simpler refreshments were served in the same charming and 
perfect style, under the supervision of J. E. Dolan. the dining-room director, 
that has made the banquets of the Maryland famous. It was the hotel 
itself, and its appointments and surroundings, that the visitors were more 
interested in, and Manager D. i\I. Linnard and his charming wife were 
never kept busier in their lives than at this time in escorting their Eastern 




A Glimpse of Hotel Maryland, Pasadena. Cal. 



friends about. All agreed that one of the happiest expressions of the life 
in the open air for those who stay at the Maryland is the pergola of the 
hotel, whose white columns and beamed roofing are draped with climbing 
roses and bordered by flowers. This is the favorite rendezvous after dinner, 
when the mountains, which are seen in magnificent vistas from this point, 
are turning from rose to amethyst as the sun goes down. The long prom- 



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169 



(.'iiade of the pergola ends with a stone seat fitted with cushions, and at 
intervals widens into wayside nooks where cushioned settees and rustic 
chairs make charming places to sit and chat, with the vines flinging sun- 
flecked shadows around you. 

Another interesting feature of the Maryland is the fact that surrounding 
the hotel, but each protected by its own grounds, are several bungalows 
of anywhere from three to twelve rooms and bath, for such of the Marv- 
land's guests as \\ish to have the seclusion of a private home. 




One of the Floats at tlie 1I0:i Toiiinanient of Rope?, Pasadena, Cal. 



The California bungalow has I^econie the synonym for the comfortable 
and homelike in architecture, and these are models of their kiufl in 
attractiveness, with the low. graceful proportions, the wide porches ami 
beautiful sunlight and air which are characteristic. 

The service is just such as one would get in the hotel itself. Heat and 
hot water are piped from the main plant of the hotel and are always to be 
had in great abundance. If so desired, meals can be ser\-ed in the private 
dining-room of the bungalow. 

You may thus enjov the freedom of your own hi:)me. ])luck flowers from 
your own garden, lie in a hanimi^ck and read under the trees of your own 
grounds, and vet have none of the cares and res]ii)nsibilities of housekeeping. 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. JNI. R. A. 



It was one of the owners of the Maryland that was the prime mover 
in the organization of the world-famed Annandale Golf Club. Its house 
and grounds are situated beyond the grass-grown hills of San Rafael 
Heights, about two miles from the heart of Pasadena. It is one of th^ 
most superb locations that Southern California can offer. The clubhouse, 
which cost $40,000, is located in the midst of 120 acres which cost the 
company $70,000. The links cover an 18-hole course of 6,400 yards. Across 
the north side of the clubhouse extends a broad veranda 16 feet wide and 
180 long. On the first floor are the bowling alleys, men's lunch rooms, 
women's room and lockers for the members. On the second floor is the 
dining-room, 46 by 32 feet; reception room, 65 by 43 feet; billiard room, 
buffet, office and kitchen. On the third floor are the quarters for the 
manager and employees of the club. 

Pasadenans have entertained here many of the world's greatest golfers- 
Andrew Carnegie and President Taft both being guests in 1910. 




La Pintoresca Hotel. P?. sadena, Cal. 



La Pintoresca Hotel 
Another of the famous and attractive resort hotels of Pasadena is 
La Pintoresca (the picturesque), situated in the northern jiart of Pasadena, 
and affording by far the most perfect outlook over the city, the valley, 
the foothills, the ocean and the islands beyond of any hotel in Southern 
California. La Pintoresca is not a hotel of pretense, but is a comfortable, 
homelike, well equipped, well conducted and restful high class resort hotel, 
catering to the best class of patrons but those who prefer comfort to 
ostentatious fashion. It is located close to the car line and midway between 
the city and the mountains, has spacious grounds with semi-tropical trees, 
plants, shrubs and flowers, and close to well kept and equipped golf links. 



CHAPTER VI 

WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13, 1910 

THE ANNUAL BANQUET AT THE ALEXANDRIA, AND THE 
LADIES' BANQUET AT THE ANGELUS 

After a strenuous day of sightseeing at the Cawston Ostrich Farm, 
Mt. Lowe, the Hotel Raymond, Pasadena and the Hotels Green, Maryland 
and Pintoresca, one would have deemed the members of the H. M. M. B. A. 
entitled to a rest. But not a single one dropped out of line. All were 
present at the annual banquet at the Alexandria, Los Angeles, where it was 
known that Mr. S. J. Whitmore and Mr. Joseph Reichl had each determined 
to outshine anything before presented to the hotelmen East or West. 

It A\as an extraordinary banquet in more ways than one. It was a 
banquet of critics, of connoisseurs gathered from all parts of the United 
States who were here to see what California really could present in the 
wa_\- of elegance and completeness in service. 

And the critics were the most satisfied critics that ever sat at a banquet. 
They were full of praise and certainly the affair deserved the highest com- 
mendation for those who planned and executed it. 

When the doors of the banquet hall were thrown open at exactly 9:30 
o'clock, it presented an arbor of rare beauty, of typically California beauty, 
to the eyes of the two hundred and fifty hotelmen who wandered in and 
found their seats at the various tables. 

Fashioned after the famed pergola of the Southwest, great strings of 
roses and tiny blue and white incandescent lights stretched from table to 
table. A single bar of gold, representing the wealth of the State, supported 
these decorations. At the bottom, as the centerpiece of each table, a wide- 
spreading bouquet of roses, ferns and other greenery clustered. 

Triumph of Art 

The center table was a triumph of art, fashioned by the hands of that 
famous incomparable artist, Joseph Reichl, himself. It consisted of a long 
lake of real water, surrounded by large American Beauty roses and a great 
deal of greenerv. Out of the lake rose two fountains, one of gold and 
another of purple, spraying their delicately scented water high in the air. 
At the base of these illuminated creations swam goldfish and other members 
of the finny tribe. There were seventeen seated at this table. 

The napery, silverware, the shimmering glasses, and the delicate china, 
all added their glister. The unique thing of the evening was the souvenir 
place card. This was handed to each guest upon entering the banquet 




bo 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 175 

liall — a tiny suitcase of brown grass, with brass edges and lock and pasted 
over with symbols of the hotel, the occasion, the H. M. j\I. B. A., and 
others, indicating the well-traveled man and the man who recognizes the 
well-traveled man. 

Inside of these pretty cases was located the program of the evening, 
a complete menu and interesting data. C)n the silken cover was stamped a 
little poem, appropriate for the time and for the man who finds his home 
in the great caravansaries of the country. It read : 

"Who'er has traveled life's dull road, 
\\'here"er his stages may have been, 
]\Iay sigh to think he still has found 
The warmest welcome at an inn." 

Contrasts 

The opposite cover depicted the landlord of old, the man who ran the 
little wayside inn in Revolutionary period, standing before the door of his 
hospitable place, welcoming the weary traveler alighting from the stage. 
The other half of the silken cover showed the great hotel of to-day, a 
bell-hop carrying an array of suitcases, grips and other hand-baggage into 
the wide-open doors of an up-to-date hostelry. Rushing automobiles and 
street cars passing typified the hurr3'-up spirit of the present day. 

Inside the cover was the aimouncement of the occasion and then the 
menu, which follows : Caviar d"Astrachan, served in vessels with all sails 
set; toke points au citron, mignonette: tortue claire ; hors d' Oeuvres 
varies ; filet de sand dabs, Florentine ; noisettcd agneau papillotte, Alexan- 
dria ; sorbet, California; supreme de pintade en nid, salad de Los Angeles; 
glaces fantaisies. friandises ; celeri a la hongroise. cafe. The wine list 
included sherry, crema olorosa Solera, 1811; Cordova dr_y haut sauterne; 
G. H. Mumm & Co., extra dry; Alexandria private stock cognac; Apolli- 
naris ; cigars and cigarettes. 

The final page contained the names of the speakers, the chairman, toast- 
master and all of the subjects to which they were detailed. The back co\'er 
was embossed with the name and the emblem of the association. 

Varied Program 

The musical program of the evening was a varied one. The Vienese 
Quartet, the Hungarian Band, several operatic singers, a harpist, a 
mandolin and a violin soloist took part, and their playing was of such 
character that it called for repeated encores. 

The songs were not confined to the usual iiielodies, hut included several 
of the old Spanish airs, redolent of the spirit of fun that prevailed among 
the dons of olden days, before the aggressive Yankee invaded the fair 
Southwest. These were charming ones and called for a number of encores. 
The same was true of the mandolin selections. 



176 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M, M. B. A. 

When the final course was being served, the band and orchestra united 
in playing "The Star-Spangled Banner," and, standing, the assembled diners 
sang with loud acclaim the national anthem. 

When the last waiter had retired. Chairman Walter Raymond made a 
few introductory remarks and then resigned his place to Past President 
Fred Van Orman. who called on President John S. Mitchell of this citv. 
How well that able gentleman stands with the hotelmen of the entire United 
States was easily shown by the ovation gi\'en him when he arose. 

He called upon the national secretary, J. K. Blatchford of Chicago, to 
read the messages. These showed that, although not present in body, a 
great manj^ of the hotelmen were in Los Angeles in spirit. Messages of 
congratulation and regret for not being able to be here were many and 
came from all parts of the country. 

"Tenderfeet" No Longer 

These finished, President Mitchell, acting also as toastmaster, in graceful 
phraseology, told of the capturing of the first convention for Southern 
California in 1896, how several of the "Woolly Westerners" opened the eyes 
of the "tenderfeet" and lured them to the coast for the first time. He 
described the second attempt and' its success, and then turned to the 
organization itself, praising the men who founded and stood by it when 
things were not nearly as cheerful to look forward to as they are at present. 

Henry J. Bohn, one of the original members of the association, told of 
the early struggles, the times of hardship, and of the present prosperity of 
the organization. He also spoke of the morning visit to Mt. Lowe and paid 
a tribute to Prof. Lowe, who was one of the guests of the evening. 

Edward A. Fleming discussed briefly the essential factor of unity among 
the hotelmen, not only of a particular district, but of an entire country. 
He was followed bv one of the ablest speakers of the evening, known from 
one end of the coast to the other as the orator of the San I'^rancisco dele- 
gation. Kirk Harris. 

The talk of Mr. Harris was essentially one of fraternity among the 
hotelmen. 

"The unwritten motto of the San Francisco association is 'All pull 
together,' and we are doing it," he said, "^^'e are all out for the business 
and we have long ago learned that it is the fellow who wears out the soles 
of his shoes instead of the seat of his pants who wins in San Francisco. 

"Our interests are not all in San Francisco. We have fostered the 
greatest possible spirit of good fellowship with the Los Angeles hotelmen 
and we are opposed to the spirit of knocking our fair southern city. We 
believe in the complete elimination of sectional antagonism." 

Mr. Harris completed his remarks with the hope that the San Francisco 
men might be able to equal in a small degree, at least, the entertainment 
provided by the Los Angeles aggregation, when the visitors arrive in that 
city. 



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■"Hotel Associations" was the theme allotted to F. N. Bain, who was 
followed In- Harr}' L. Brown of Boston, who was elected vice-president of 
the association at the election. "Our Slogan, New England," was the topic 
of Mr. Brown, who told of the efforts of the hotelmen in the oldest part 
of the United States in promoting a better feeling among the traveling 
public and the bonifaces. 

Edward M. Tierney, noted as the silver-tongued orator of the association, 
who held the ofifice of president previous to the election of Mr. Ewins, was 
next on the program. "Hotel Fraternity" was the subject which occupied 
his attention. W'ith a peculiar Irish wit, his speech was at one and the 
same time amusing and full of solid facts. He depicted the early struggles 
of the association, the gradual drawing together of the hotelmen with the 
realization that in combined harmony the greatest strength can be found. 

Concluding the evening, or the morning, for the dinner and the talking 
ran far into the early hours, was an Irishman of local as well as national 
fame. Joseph Scott, who, as president of the board of education, was on hand 
to dispense a few pertinent facts about the city and impress them in a way 
that will remain a long time in the memory of those present. His jovial 
humor, illustrating and driving home facts, made his talk one of the features 
of the evening and held the audience to the last minute. 

Honor Guests 

Those seated at the table of honor were John S. Mitchell, Fred Van 
Orman, Evansville, Ind. ; J. K. Blatchford, Chicago: Harry L. Brown, 
Boston: Fred A. Reed, New York; James H. Bowker, Meriden, Conn.; W. H. 
Rider. D. D., Gloucester, Mass.; E. H. Thayer, Denver; F. N. Bain, New- 
burgh, N. Y. ; Joseph Scott, Walter Raymond, Pasadena; E. W. Tierney, 
New York City ; Edward T. Fleming, Philadelphia ; Kirk Harris, San 
Francisco: William ^^^ Davis, Boston; Henry J. liohn, Chicago; Frank P. 
Ewins, Kansas City. 

The Los Angeles Hotel Men's Association, and particularly the members 
of the committee, received sincere praise at the outcome of the banquet. 
Samuel \\'hitmore and his able assistant, Joseph ReichI, received no end of 
com]:)liments on the banquet. Harry Fryman, who acted as head of the 
Reception Committee, and, with C. C. Loomis, E. L. Potter and others of 
the local organization, handled the excursion of the visitors in the morning, 
also came in for their share of high commendation. 

The Ladies' Banquet at The Angelus 

\\ hile the gentlemen of the H. M. M. B. A. were entertaining them- 
selves at the Alexandria, the ladies were enjoying themselves in their own 
fair manner at the Angelus. It has been said that "there have been women's 
teas and receptions and other feminine symposia innumerable throughout 
the L'nited States for many years, but this was really the first actual 
woman's ban(.|uet, a la masculine, that has ever taken place anywhere." 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. C. A. 




Mrs. Walter R;iymond, Toastmaster of the Ladies' Banquet. Los Angeles, Cal. 



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There were 184 Ijanqueters present, with not a man anywhere to partake, 
prompt or direct; and the menu was quite as elegant and extravagant as the 
one presented at the Alexandria. 

The Los Angeles "Times" says of this function : 

"Why attempt to describe a bantiuet graced exclusively by the fair sex, 
(inless to say it was a garden of roses, lilies, poppies and violets, clothed 
in the softly brilliant hues of the rainbow. The wives and daughters of the 
members of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, who were tendered 
a banquet at the Angelus Hotel last night by the Southern California Hotel 
Men's Association, surpassed the floral decorations of the banquet room in 
grace and loveliness. The speeches, too, matched in brightness, the best 
efforts of practiced male after-dinner orators. The presence of mere man 
at this banquet, where covers were laid for 185, would have jarred like a 
false note in a sonata or been as unsightly as a cauliflower in a bed of sweet 
peas. 

"This gathering of women is unique. And the success of the banquet 
demonstrates that woman is keeping pace with man in all that man does 
best, whether in conducting a hotel or making a speech. The large room 
was a symphony in color, and shows that the Loomis brothers possess the 
keenest discrimination and taste in such a delicate matter as the floral 
decorations for a ladies' banquet. There were masses of pink and red sweet 
peas, dainty lamps, and when the speeches began, roses, laurel, poppies and 
confetti. For after each speech the air was filled with these flowers, tossed 
by fair hands. 

"The menu cards were art treasures. Paul de Longpre's famous painting 
of the poinsettia was reproduced on each one, and distributed at the close 
of the banquet to be carried away as souvenirs. The place cards were 
hand-painted. Each guest also found at her plate a tiny traveling bag 
and diminutive baskets filled with roses. 

"The menu was as follows : 

Grape Fruit Supreme 

Essence of Chicken a I'Epicnre 

Ripe Olives Celery Salted Pecans 

Catalina Sand Dabs on Papilotte 

Potato Chips Cucumbers a la Jones 

Creamed Lamb Sweet Breads a la King, California Punch 

Potted Squab Chicken a r.\ngelus 

Our Special I'>uit Salad 

Frozen Xesselrode Pudding Small Assorted Cakes 

Roquefort Toasted Crackers 

Demi Tasse 

Ron Eons Cresta Blanca 

Haute Sauterne Apollinaris 

G. H. Mumm & Co.'s Extra Dry Champagne 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. AI. B. A. 




MRS. DWIOHT H. HART. 



Mrs. Dwight H. Hart was -not only one of 
the niust active and energetic of the ladies 
of tile Southern California Hotel Association's 
Reception Committee to the wi\ es of the visit- 
ing liotelmen, of whir.-h she was chairman, but 
was also honored by opening the banquet of 
the visiting ladies at Hotel Angelus, and pre- 
senting the toastmaster on that occasion. Her 



speech revealed her a woman of wit and 
culture, able to make an address both enter- 
taining, forceful and Ijright. She was a 
decided "success" in both of her roles, and 
many of the visiting ladies have taken back 
with them exquisite memories of her ability, 
her tact, her helpfulness and unselfish exer- 
tions on their behalf. 



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"An orchestra hidden in an adjoining room played dnring the banquet 
and accompanied Salvatore Tomaso of Chicago, who is a member of the 
association, when he paid the banqueters the honor of giving an impromptu 
serenade on the mandoHn. liis selections from Mendelssohn and Mascagni 
were received with every manifestation of pleasure, as he was not on the 
program." 

The chairman or master of ceremonies, who introduced the toastmaster, 
was Mrs. Dwight Hart, wife of the junior proprietor of the Hotels Natick 
and Rosslyn, Los Angeles. In a speech full of bright and witty things she 
said : "I attempted to borrow or buy a speech, but everywhere I went I was 
told that the very best speeches had been loaned to the speakers at the 
Alexandria. Notwithstanding this, we have ladies with us who can make 
pretty speeches, and they don't have to borrow or buy them." 

The cheers were a hearty and sincere tribute to her oratorical ability 
as she sat down, and were renewed when Mrs. Walter Raymond, the toast- 
master, arose to offer the first toast. In acknowledging the tribute paid her 
by Mrs. Hart as a charming hostess, Mrs. Raymond spoke glowingly of 
Southern California, and Pasadena in particular, and assured the guests that 
no matter where they went, the}' would always look back to Southern Cali- 
fornia as the one place in the world that approaches nearest to Paradise. 

"No matter where you are from," she said, "may the best day vou have 
seen be worse than the worst to come." 

With a few gracious and well chosen words Mrs. F. O. Johnson, wife of 
the proprietor of the Westminster Hotel, Los Angeles, was presented. Mrs. 
Johnson spoke on "The Visiting Ladies." She assured them that they are 
more than our guests, they are our friends. "We are glad to take you in, 
not on oil stock or gold bricks, and although the climate is boomed, it is not 
a skin game. The real success of the hotelmen Jies in the wisdom shown 
in the choice of their wives. As I look upon our beautiful womankind, I do 
not wonder that the charm of American women has contributed to the energy 
of Americans." 

Mrs. Raymond immediately followed this address by the apt quotatiol 
of these exquisite lines: 

"There is not a place in earth or heaven, 
There is not a task to mankind given. 

There is not a pleasure or a woe, ; 

There is not an answer Yes or No, 
There is not a life or birth 
That has a feather's weight of worth 
Without a woman in it." 

At a convenient place Mr. Henry J. Bohn, of the "Hotel World," and 
Mr. Frank P. Ewins, a former president of the H. M. M. B. A., who were 
sent over as the special ambassadors of President Mitchell, were introduced. 
Mr. Bohn made a few remarks as follows: 



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I come with greetings and regards from the presiding officer and newly-elected 
president of the H. M. M. B. A., Mr. Mitchell, who permitted Mr. Ewins, who is with 
me, and myself to absent ourselves from the official banquet at the Alexandria, where 
our speeches are about to begin, a few moments on condition that I should carry to 
you his greetings and express his regrets that he can not come in person. We think 
we are a pretty fine-looking "bunch" over there, but we are not in it for a minute with 
this bower of feminine loveliness. We are wishing of course you were with us, but it 
seems that can not be on this occasion. From your smiling faces, and the atmosphere 
that pervades this lovely scene, I know you are now all acquainted with each other and 
are supremely happy, and I know that you are going to have better speeches than we 
men folks can make! I wish to add that iti the long history of the H. M. M. B. A. I 
have never seen a lovelier scene than this "bunch of beauty" that is before me, and I 
congratulate you individually and collectively, and myself I congratulate upon having 
the opportunity, with your permission, of gazing in upon you and saying these few- 
inadequate words. 





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In presenting Mrs. E. R. Farley, Mrs. Raymond spoke on ''The Sphere 
of \\'oman," and showed that while she shone as a wife and a mother, she 
was in her sphere whenever and wherever she was doing work that she 
could do, that needed to be done, and doing it well. "Such a woman," 
said she, "is Mrs. Farley." 

Mrs. E. R. Farley, whose subject was "A Woman Hotel Man," gave her 
experience in managing the Hotel Pepper. She said she had started at the 
bottom and in her ambition to manage a hotel, took over the Hotel Pepper, 
which was practically under the hammer, and by dint of hard work had put 
it on a sound foundation. She planned for a Greater Hotel Pepper and has 
demonstrated the possibility of operating an apartment annex of 150 rooms. 
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pluck shown by J\Irs. Farle_y won her a tribute in the shape of laurel wreaths 
which were tossed down the tables. 

Mrs. Barber of Boston then proposed that the ladies give a rising vote 
of thanks to the S. C. H. A. and their ladies for the banquet that had been 
given them, and the vote was unanimous and hearty, after which the toast- 
master introduced Mrs. Lee Holliday of Los Angeles by saying: 

"^\"e are known as prevaricators when we speak of California climate, 
but I can vouch for Mrs. Holliday as a truthful speaker." 

As Mrs. Holliday's subject was "California Yesterday and To-day." she 
was greeted with laughter, but solemnly declared that it is not true that 
"we can not talk about California unless we are prevaricators." And she 
proceeded, in fine poetical style, to tell of the land of sunshine and flowers, 
of orange groves and industries, and concluded by stating it is also a land 
of opportunities and resources. 

The last speech of the evening was by Mrs. J. \V. Mitchell on "The Gen- 
tlemen." and it was replete with expressions of confidence and bright with 
clever hits. 

Altogether, the occasion was a delightful one and one long to be remem- 
bered. The visitors as well as the home ladies were unanimous in their 
expressions of opinion that by this banquet the Loomis Bros, had crowned 
themselves with a new glory, and that Mrs. Raymond, as toastmaster, had 
filled the position with a dainty display of wit that stamps her as proficient 
in the art of striking chords from the human heart. She herself proposed the 
first toast. "Drink to our absent friends," which was given standing, and 
closed the banquet with the couplet: 

"Happy have we met, happy have we been, 
Happy may we part, and happy be our men." 














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CHAPTER VII 

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1910— PACIFIC OCEAN DAY 

Redondo Beach, Venice, Santa Monica and Hollywood 

Gathering togetlicr at the Hollenbeck Hotel, under the sheltering wing 
of President Mitchell, special electric cars were taken for Redondo Beach. 
This is one of the seaports of Los Angeles, and her shipping is not only an 
important industry but adds a picturesque touch to the life of this many- 
sided resort. Here may be seen the luxurious express steamers of the Pacific 
Coast Steamship Company, sailing regularly for San Diego, San Francisco, 
Seattle and other coastwise points, and here also are found lumber vessels 
of many kinds and from many lands. Sometimes an old-fashioned square- 
rigged barque from Australia is seen in port, while at the next wharf may be 
a modern steel steamer from Hawaii or Japan. 

Here we were shown Mr. Henry E. Huntington's cottage at Clifton-by- 
the-Sea, and then rapidly taken to the great Huntington Power Plant, which 
is the largest in the West, and the most modern and efficient in the world. 
The building is of reinforced concrete, and is unique from the fact that the 
concrete is made of gravel from the Moonstone Beach, containing many 
specimens of semi-precious stones. The plant cost more than $1,500,000, 
and gave to our visitors, better than words, a clear idea of the rapid growth 
of the country that requires such tremendous generating plants to supply the 
region with needed electric power. 

We were then taken to the Hot Salt Plunge, which is said to be the 
largest in the United States, if not in the world, and in point of finish and 
equipment is unequaled. The immense structure is 278x156 feet and contains 
1,350 dressing-rooms, besides a complete Turkish and tub bath department. 
The swimming pools are three in number, being a "baby pool" 30x70 feet, 
with a depth of water ranging from one to two feet ; a high diving pool 
30x70 feet, with water nine feet deep; and a main pool 70x157 feet, with 
water from three to five feet in depth. All the pools are supplied with a 
continuous flow of pure warm sea water from the great power plant. At 
most bathhouses pumping and heating are expensive luxuries, and the water 
is changed onlv at stated intervals, .^t the Redondo Beach Plunge the water 
changes constantlv, entering the pools in enormous volume through 
ornamental fountains, and being withdrawn at numerous outlets, insuring 
adequate circulation and perfect sanitary conditions, and no one is obliged 
to bathe in water formerly used by other bathers. 

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years one of the show places of Southern California. Here they saw the 
acres and acres of carnations and sweet peas for which Redondo is famous. 
When exercise and sea air had fully sharpened all appetites, and some 
of the more hungry were calling for "raw hippopotamus," a delicious 
luncheon was served at the Dolphin, where great interest centered around 
the "corn-fed clams." When the appetites of all were fully satisfied, one 
of the brightest and wittiest addresses made to the association was given by 
Mr. C. H. Burnett, manager of the Los Angeles & Redondo Railway Co., 
and president of the Chamber of Commerce. He said ; 

Up to to-day you have, I understand, been guests of the Southern California Hotel 
Men's Association, but Mr. Mitchell and his associates have agreed to let us have a 
small share in the pleasure of entertaining you, and this morning you have been the 
joint guests of the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles & Redondo 
Railway Company and the Southern California Hotel Men's Association, and on behalf 
of the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce, I want to tell j'ou how glad we are 
to have the privilege of entertaining you. 

In the first place, I want to congratulate you upon the large and representative 
attendance at your convention; upon having transacted such a large amount of important 
business, and upon the harmonious and businesslike manner in which your deliberations 
have been conducted. I also wish to congratulate you upon being residents for even a 
few days of the great city of Los Angeles, and guests at Los Angeles hotels; and also 
upon having imbibed some very good Los Angeles ideas. I don't know what else you 
may have imbibed, but I am very glad to notice that you have contracted at least one 
good Los Angeles habit, and one which I am happy to say is very prevalent. 

In Los Angeles, as you know, the people are all hustlers and all work very hard, 
but they stop once in a w^hile for a little rest and recreation and a good dinner, and 
so I say that you are merely following a good Los Angeles custom when, at the first 
opportunity, you make a bee-line for the best beach city in California, and the best 
fish dinner on the Pacific Coast. 

I imagine some of my friends from the other beach resorts may want to know how 
I am going to prove that Redondo Beach is the best resort in California, and I will 
merely say to them that I do not have to prove it — I freely admit it. As far as the fish 
dinner is concerned, we have introduced that in evidence, and the evidence has been 
introduced into the jury, and I am therefore perfectly willing to leave the matter entirely 
to you. 

In the name of the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce and our citizens generally, 
I bid you a hearty and cordial welcome. We are glad to see you, and we want you to 
have a good time. We are proud to entertain you and we are proud to show you our 
city. We know that we have the finest town in California, and we want everybody else 
to know it. It may be of interest to you to know that we are one of the oldest seaports 
on the Southern Coast, and one of the principal ports of entry for Los .Angeles. Over 
our wharves is handled an enormous tonnage of lumber, merchandise and oil, as well 
as many thousands of passengers. Our geographical location is such that we are the 
first port of call for Los Angeles traffic for vessels plying from San Francisco and other 
northern ports, and our commerce also includes large quantities of hardwood lumber 
from Japan and the Haw^aiian Islands. Our pro.ximity to the great Sherman oil fields, 
through which you will pass this afternoon, makes us the largest oil shipping port in 
Southern California. We are connected with Los Angeles by four lines of electric rail- 
way, and we are also the tide water terminus of the Santa Fe system. During the past 
year our lumber business has increased 30 per cent, our merchandise traffic 45 per ceni 
and our passenger traffic 75 per cent. 

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of many attractions, some of wliich you have seen, but it would be impossible to show 
you all of them in the limited time at your disposal. We only hope that some day you 
will all return and give us a better chance to entertain you. 

I neglected to ask Mr. Mitchell whether he proposed to run his Entertainment Com- 
mittee on the European plan or the American plan, but judging from the expressions I 
have heard to-day, I find he has been running it on the California plan. The difference 
between the European plan and the .American plan is well illustrated by an item I saw 
in the paper the other day under the head of "Answers to Correspondents," as follows; 

In the best society what do guests at leading metropolitan hotels usually order for breakfast? 
As I have never been away from home and am going to New York on my bridal tour, I shall 
appreciate any helpful hint. I am eighteen and my health is good. FLOSSIE. 

That depends. Should the hotel at which you stop be conducted on the European plan, you 
will write out this order: Coffee. Rolls, and Boiled Eggs. If, on the other hand, the American 
plan obtains, ask the waiter to bring you the following: 

Hot House Grapes Blood Oranges 

Oatmeal — Cream 

Bread Rolls Corn MufBns Scones 

Chocolate 

Broiled Salmon Creamed Potatoes 

Omelet with Mushrooms 

Porterhouse Steak Grilled Sweet Potatoes 

Hot Waffle.s — Maple Syrup 

If your health is VERY good, a .Jumbo Squab on Toast may precede the steak. Take the 
oranges to your room. 

Now if Mr. Mitchell had been running that breakfast on the California plan he would 
merely have added some humming-bird's tongues on toast, soine broiled flying fish, and 
a few other simple dishes that Flossie might have overlooked. 

Mr. Bohn thus describes the rest of the experiences of the day : 

"Our luncheon over, we proceed by trolley along the beach by Ocean Park and 
Santa Monica to Venice and are entertained on the ship hotel, to Hollywood, where 
light refreshments are served at the charming Hollywood Hotel (and here I may say 
as an aside, we also meet those veteran Michigan bonifaces who are spending the winter 
of their lives in summery California, H. F. Badger of Kalamazoo and Farnham Lyon 
of East Saginaw, accompanied by their wives). 

"Here we take autos and visit the beautiful General Otis home, Mr. Watkins' 
Sunken Gardens, and Arthur Letts' charming home and gardens, but the piece de 
resistance of this program in the beauty line is the studio and grounds of Paul de 
Longpre, where that celebrated flower painter greets us in person as we stroll through 
his garden with its five thousand rose bushes that surrounds his studio, and view with 
silent admiration and amazement his beautiful flower paintings. It is a never-to-be- 
forgotten half hour. This has been one long, lovely day of delightful surprises and 
entertainment." 



CHAPTER VIII 

FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1910— CATALINA ISLAND AND 

LONG BEACH DAY 

The guests assembled at Hotel Haywards, the beautiful hotel of H. C. 
Fryman, the new president of the Southern California Hotel Association, 
and from thence took special trains of electric cars on the great Huntington 
system to San Pedro harbor, upon which the government is spending many 
millions to make it one of the large and safe harbors of the Pacific Coast. 
Although San Pedro is twenty miles away from Los Angeles, it has been 
duly embraced by that city — connected with a pan-handle, and is now legiti- 




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An H. M. M. B. A. ■•group" on the steamer ■•Cabrillo" bound tor Santa Catallna, Cal. 

matcly and truly a part of Los Angeles, so that the enterprising metropolis 
of Southern California can now truthfully claim to be a seaport. And it will 
not be long before the pan-handle will be one grand boulevard lined with 
fine bungalows and other residences. 

At San Pedro the party boarded the steamer Cabrillo, one of the 
A\"ilmington Transportation Company's boats, with a capacity of 950 people, 
and was soon out of the harbor on to the broad Pacific. Everything was 
charming that day, perfect weather and sea going and coming, the whales, 
dolphins and flying fish performed as properly as if they were doing their 
"stunt" in a vaudeville show, and everybody was delighted. 



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Santa Catalina Island is Southern California's most famous summer and 
winter resort. In all the world there is no more enchanting spot. This 
island is a mountain range at sea — twenty-two miles long — from one to seven 
miles wide — and its highest peak, 2,200 feet elevation. 

The coast line of the island is cut with innumerable bays, each beautiful 
and picturesque, each with a different background, bringing a constantly 
changing panorama of calm waters, smooth beaches, niany-hued rocks, lofiy 
cliffs, green canyons and mountain peaks — a combination of seashore and 
mountain scenery unec|ualed in the world. 

In one of these most enchanting bays has been built up the citv of 
Avalon, and here the Cabrillo landed the H. M. M. B. A. guests. The time 
tor this "Magic Isle" was all too short. Everybody wanted to see and 
"do" everything, and there wasn't time, so the crowd scattered, some to do 
one thing and some another, but all to be happy. i\Iany took the mountain 
coach ride in fine six-in-hand coaches, driven by Mr. George A. Greelev, 
formerly of I'asadena, and one of the best known whips and horsemen of 
California. George's coaches are all standard Concords, his horses are all 
good and "on the go," and his drivers perfect with whip, lines and brake. 
This ride is a magnificent one, giving one the finest kind of outlook ()\tr 
the valley, the shore line, the ocean and the mainland beyond. Some went 
boating and others bathing, but without exception, all went in the glass- 
bottomed boats. This is by far the best known of Santa Catalina's many 
unique attractions, and one wdiich no visitor to the island should miss. It 
aft'ords a view of the beautiful submarine gardens through glass-bottomed 
boats. These gardens have been eloquently described as follows : 

"Floating over the green and blue water in the glass-bottom boat, one 
sees the goings and comings of aquatic life. Here are shell-encrusted ro.'ks, 
fishes, red. green, gold, zigzagging leisurely among the waving foliage; 
here are real trees with long branches, waving as on land by a temjx'st : 
great fish of all shapes, lu.xuriant foliage, with branches bearing clusters of 
fruit resembling olives. Leaning over the transparencies in the Ijottom of 
the boats, people go into ecstasies." 

"Well, I surely will have things to tell the people at home when ] get 
there," remarked one Ohio boniface, "and I'll wager that when the people 
hear about these marine gardens, with trees as big as our own buckeyes, 
and gold fish, and silver ones, and ocean tomatoes and encumbers, they'll 
call me a liar, and tell me the California air must have gone to my head. 
Well, I'm most willing to believe anything I ever hear about Southern 
California after to-day, and it certainly will not be my last trip to this part 
of the world." 

The glass-bottom boat rides were not the only features on the program. 
The management of the Metropole Hotel was on hand with greetings and 
something more substantial, a dainty fish luncheon, Catalina sand dabs, 
famous the world over for their delicacy, white fish, and other dishes 
essential to a good menu were provided. 



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Many walked up to see the open-air tlieater, where concerts by the 
world-famous Santa Catalina Band are given every evening, and where, 
unique in the history of America, no whispering or talking is allowed 
during the performances. Attendants are stationed all over the theater. 
Over the stand an electric transparency flashes forth a request for silence. 
The concert begins. Someone whispers. The attendant hears and 
approaches the offender, and pointing to the sign, it is so arranged as to 
flash out its warning as he points. If this warning does not answer an<l 
he has to speak to the same offender again, he hands him (or her, for, 
strange to say, it is sometimes a her) a card, on which the following is 
printed in large letters : 




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"Please refrain from talking during rendition of band numbers. You will 
please eveiyone by granting this request. By special request of Executive 
Committee." 

If this pointed request fails, the third oft'ense is met by the attendant 
politely leading the whisperer where he belongs, viz., away from the concert 
and into disgrace. The result is that one can enjoy a concert better at 
Santa Catalina in the open air than in Chicago. Boston, or Xew York — for 
the writer has attended concerts in them all. 

The whistle for "All aboard" came all too soon. Everyone regretted 
that they had not more time at Catalina. Two hours later they boarded the 
Salt Lake trains at San Pedro and were carried in a few minutes to 



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Long Beach and Hotel Virginia 

where the Long Beach Band was on hand to discourse sweet music, and 
a hundred automobiles were lined up to take the guests through the city. 
Some, however, preferred to take a dip in the plunge bath of the Hotel 
Virginia. As Henr^^ J. Bohn well wrote : 

"The day's program was finished with an elaborate dinner served by 
Carlton Gilbert at the Virginia. The great dining-room was beautifully 
decorated and the party was an unusually large one. Many of the local 
])eople as well as some of our Eastern delegates bringing Los Angeles 
friends. .\ feature of this fine dinner, besides decorations and orchestra. 




Beautii'ul Hi_'te! \'irginia. Long Beat-h, Cal. One of the finest and best beach liotels in tlie world. 



was a song — unexpectedly requested and granted — by Mrs. Walter Ray- 
mond, wife of the proprietor and owner of the Raymond at Pasadena, who 
is a notable songstress. After the dinner there was dancing in the great 
ballroom and moonlight strolls on the beach, and so charmed were some 
of our H. Al. AI. B. A. people with the magnificent hotel that they did not 
return to the city with the special trolle}-s, but sta3'ed over night to be 
lulled to sleep by the 'sad sea waves.' " 

The decorations of the lianquct hall were of a peculiar California type. 
From the lobby, great strings of wistaria blooms mounted to the dome, 
formed above a fountain of sparkling water in the center of the hall. The 



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fountain was a creation of callas, roses and greenery. On each table a 
fragrant centerpiece of roses graced the scene. 

The Hotel Virginia was a complete surprise to all the Easterners. As 
John Willey well said in his "Hotel Monthly" : 

"This great hotel, on the edge of the Pacific C)cean, set in a green lawn, 
with magnificently furnished public rooms and modern equipped throughout, 
was a great surprise to the visitors, who little dreamed of so great and fine a 
hotel on a Pacific Coast beach. I'.ut the hotel is there; and a demonstration 
was made of its quality and cajjacity at a banquet at which 550 guests were 
comfortably seated in the main dining-room, 63 by 210 feet. The ])an(|uet 
was introduced by the sudden darkening of the room and flashlight illumina- 
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had provided for 450 guests, and 550 were seated when the first course was 
brought in. The elaborate menu was served in full to all, and Manager 
Gilbert received the congratulations of the entertainment committee on the 
skilful manner in which the banquet was handled under the trying condi- 
tions of serving at an hour's notice, and without crowding the tables, or 
altering his menu, a hundred more in addition to the 450 he had provided 
for. It was a catering feat that has made Carleton Gilbert famous." 

The building is of reinforced concrete and is a million-dollar structure, as 
fireproof as modern science knows how to construct a building. 

South of the hotel spreads the endless Pacific, to the north one overlooks 
the city of Long Beach, and in the distance the snow-strewn Sierra Madre 
mountains, wdiile to the east and west stretches the beautiful silver strand 
giving to Long Beach its name. 



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The lobb}- with its cokimiis of marble, classical decoration and beautiful 
hangings, rich Oriental rugs, rare Japanese bronzes, embroideries and 
exquisite paintings, elicits admiration. Here one may actually realize what 
the hero of the '"Bohemian Girl" only dreamt of, for the song declares 
'T dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls." 

For balls on a large and grand scale, the Louis XIV ballroom, with its 
ball bearing floor and numerous exits leading to the breeze-swept colon- 
nades, has no equal on the coast, and is the scene of much gaiety at all 
seasons. In addition to the weekly hops, many of society's most exclusive 
dances are held here. 

The grand salon is equal in size, charm and equipment to the lobby, 
and the exquisite taste manifested throughout is not the least of its 
allurements. 




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The dining-room is especially attractive in its quiet and unostentatious 
dignity. It is done after the Gothic style of architecture. The windows 
fronting south overlook the Pacific. There are no draughts — the ventilation 
is after the most approved idea — and every table has its own telephone, 
electric candelabra and individual floral decorations. 

One of the special features of the Hotel Virginia is the Lanai or Sun- 
parlor. It is located on the great corridor, overlooking the gay throngs on 
the beach and the wide stretch of the Pacific beyond, where steamers plying 
up and down the coast, numerous yachts, fishing boats, sailing vessels, 
launches and pleasure craft of every description give pleasing touches to the 
exquisite blue of the ocean. Here, in this sheltered spot one may take 



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afternoon tea, or after-dinner coffee, or even have a meal served — a feature 
that Southern Californians are just beginning fully to appreciate. Those 
who wish to be entirely out of doors at these informal or formal functions 
find the colonnade a convenient and commodious place for such festivities. 

The bedrooms, as one would expect of such a hotel, are models. There 
are over 400 of them, and of these, over 300 are provided with individual 
bathrooms. 

The ^'irginia tennis courts are concrete floored and canvas wind-shielded 
in an environment conducive to the utmost enjoyment of this popular 
pastime. Here annually assemble players of international fame to contest 
championship games before well-filled galleries of keenly interested 
spectators. 

Altogether the Virginia was a delight and surprise to all our guests, 
and the delightful dinner so exquisitely and perfectly served reflected the 
greatest credit upon the management. The Virginia was opened for its 
summer season by Mr. Carl Stanley, who was its acting manager when 




CARI. STANLEY. 



Carl Stanley, manager of Hotel Virginia, 
Long Beach, began Inis liotel life at the Van 
Nu.vs Hotel in Los Angeles as bellboy. His 
promotion was rapid, and he served as front 
clerk, night clerk, room clerk, and chief clerk 
diii'ing the nine years of his occupation there. 
He then came to the Hotel Virginia, as cliief 



clerk, under D. JL Linnard, worked one winter 
at the .Maryland, 1908-0;i, with him, and then 
opened the Virginia, on May .'!1, ISOii, as man- 
ager, and ran it until March 1, 1910. He then 
accepted a position with the Portland Hotel, 
Portland, Ore., I'eturning to take charge of the 
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first opened. Mr. Staiik"_\''s rapid rise to prominence in the hotel field is a 
proof of his laudai^le ambition and superior abilities, and in his hands it is 
confidently expected that the Virginia will become one of the most 
profitable, as it already is, the most beautiful of the beach resorts of this 
portion of the Pacific Ocean. 

The city of Long Beach is one of the marvels of the West. Thirty years 
ago nothing but a stretch of fine sand, the ocean on one side and a cattle 
ranch on the other, it now has an active, cultured and refined population 
of over 20,000 souls, and is growing rapidly. Two transcontinental railway:; 
have Pacific Coast connections here, the Southern Pacific, and the "Salt 
Lake," while the Pacific Electric runs express trains to and from Los 
Angeles with frequency. Recognizing that much of its patronage comes 
from the interior and from those who enjoy atitomobiling the city and 
countv authorities have prepared miles of fine roads, and in November, 
1910. a new and well-constructed automobile boulevard reaching from Los 
Angeles to Long Beach will be formally opened. This will allow of a rapid 
run in one's own machine from Los Angeles after business hours in time 
for dinner, and many are already planning to avail themselves of this grand 
opportunity — fleeing from the city, taking a fine ride surrounded by 
magnificent scenerv, the breezes and health-giving ozone from the ocean, 
dinner at Hotel \'irginia, and either remaining over night in i^ne of the 
finest of bedrooms and most comfortable of beds and returning to business 
in the morning after breakfast, or, if necessary, returning by the light of 
the moon, or what is nearly as good, by the clear light of a Ijattery of 
automoljile lamps. I-~or a week-end recreation and rest this ride and the rest 
at Hotel Virginia is simp!}' ideal. 

Another feature that renders Hotel \'irginia unique is its Art Gallery, 
started about a year ago by the indefatigable efl'orts of Mrs. R. Heber 
Jackson. The intent is to place on exhil:)ition a fine collection of works 
of art, especiallv of California artists, and the showing already made has 
been most gratifying to all concerned. 



CHAPTER IX 
SATURDAY. APRIL 16. 1910-EARLY CALIFORNIA DAY 

The Vaquero Club and the " Days of Forty-Nine " Smoker at Hotel 

Alexandria 

This was a historic day and a da}' long to be remembered by our visitors. 
It was a peculiarly happy idea to present such a day and the committee 
deserve great credit for originating and carrying it out so successfully. A 
hundred years ago and less California had its heroic age — a day when the 
cowboy was king. Cattle ranged its thousand hillsides and valleys and the 
vaquero — the Spanish or Mexican cowboy — with la riata tied to his saddle 
rode the range day and night at the time of the rodeo, or roundup, to 
bring in all the animals that could he found. Their horses, most of then: 
less in size and weight than the horse of the Eastern States, looked insig- 
nificant and scrubby compared with the heavy solid saddle animals ridden 
Ijy the Puritans and their descendants, but when in action they seemed to 
be imbued with the spirit of the tornado. Thej- were shod with lightning; 
the whirlwind coursed through their veins : they rode upon the wings of 
the storm. ^^'ith their masters upon their backs, the two worked so 
perfectly together that they were veritable Centaurs. Ovck the wild, rough, 
rocky hillsides or undulating plain, regardless of boulders, rocks, brush, 
briar, thicket or fallen trees, dashed the trained animal bearing his rider as 
though he were a feather-weight. Dodging hither and yon, to right or left, 
as the obstacles in the way demanded, or boldly leaping all that could not 
be dodged, it required that the rider be unconscious of his seat or he soon 
had no seat. He must be an expert or he could be nothing in that real 
arena. For — and here let me whisper in your ear, gentle reader — those 
horses that you so despised are the descendants of the proud scions of the 
Arabian deserts — horses that were worth a king's ransom, or, to use more 
modern phraseology, horses that would cost as much as an American girl 
generallv pavs for a European count or no-account. 

After the epoch of the discovery of gold, when the first fever had died 
out, and the miner lost his ascendancy, the cowbo}- became the king, and 
for some twenty or thirty years ruled supreme. The stories of the 
lariat (a corruption of la riata). or the lasso, were told about the fireside 
and the open-air campfire, as now we tell stories of the latest victory in golf, 
tennis, or baseball, or the adventures of daring motorcyclists or automo- 
bilists. .\nd the achievements of those days were wonderful, they were 
brave, they were heroic. They stimulated blood, brain, muscle, nerve, to 
emulation and equal accomplishment, and were a good school for education 
in daring and braverv. 



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Hence it was a most appropriate thing that Los Angeles, once the 
proud capital of the province of California while it was under Mexican 
rule, should have organized a club to retain and foster all that was good 
and inspiring, in the days of the A'aquero, as far as his skill with the 
riata was concerned, his daring open-countr}' riding, his feats of horse- 
manship in the corral or on the road, and that should recall the flavor of 
his amusements when his day's work was done. 

The Vaquero Club is this peculiar!}- Southwestern institution. A 
vaquero is a cowboy. In California, especially, the vaquero found a paradise. 
Its perfect climate, its great valleys and mountain foothills where hundreds 
of thousands of sheep, goats, horses and o.xen could roam in unrestrained 
freedom to revel in luscious, fattening and strengthening grasses, made the 
life of the vaquero a happy and contented one. For what more joyous to 
ov^'ner or tender of herds of cattle or sheep than to see them growing and 
increasing in value every day, with little or no effort, and in the most 
perfect climate the world affords. Never too hot, never too cold, the 
weather delighted the vaquero as well as benelited the stock, so the life of 
the cowboy in California became the ideal, out-of-door, free life that everj-- 
one envied, everyone wished to enjoy. 

But this was only the "business side" of his life. California was an 
isolated countr}- from the rest of the world, and it had to find its pleasures 
among its own people, and through them. There were no theaters, concert 
halls, opera houses, nickelodeons, vaudevilles or moving-picture shows in 
those days, from 1770 to 1846, these practically being the days of the 
cowboy. For the Missions of California began to be established about 
1770, and Spanish and Mexican settlement of California began then, and 
their power and influence lasted until the day that the Stars and Stripes 
were raised in the old capital of JNIonterey in 1846. During these years 
the cowboy was a factor at all the gatherings for pleasure of the people. 
Horseback was the chief, indeed practically the only mode of conveyance. 
Men, women and children rode horseback. And what horses ! They were 
of Moorish and Arabic stock, brought over by the old Spanish grandees, 
and in this well-favored clime they Ijred as perfectly as in their own home. 
The result was that when American trading vessels began to come to the 
coast of California, early in the century, they found here the finest horses, 
with the most skilled riders, of both sexes, that the whole .\merican con- 
tinent could boast. And the literature of those days is full of vivid and 
enthusiastic descriptions of the horsemanship of the vaqueros, and the 
rancheros and c\'erybody else of those splendid days of pastoral California. 
.\ book twice the size of this might be written containing nothing more 
ihan quotations from the writings of visitors to California, or residents here, 
before 1846, who descrilied the horses and the various ways in which they 
were used for business and pleasure — the skill of the California ranchero 
and vaquero, the long distances ridden, the way the horses were trained 
for their work in the cowherd or horseherd. their marvelous readiness to 



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be trained so that they understood the needs of the vaquero, tlieir abiUty 
to hold a refractory steer or horse, and a thousand and one things of equal 
interest and fascination. 

Hence it was natural that some time in the history of California, after 
the American began to find a little leisure on his hands, that he should 
begin to think of those happy and glorious days when the vaquero was a 
power in the land. 

Accordingly as Los Angeles grew in size and importance, it was sug- 
gested that it have a "fiesta," where many of these old memories should be 
revived, incorporated with modern features to attract the crowds from all 
parts of the country. For many years this "fiesta" was carried on as a 
regular "institution" in Los Angeles. At one of the fiestas, five years ago, 
the Grand Marshal was Dr. G. A. Scroggs, an old-timer, who was familiar 
with the descendants of the old Spanish and Mexican families. He thought 
it would be a picturesque and interesting feature of the fiesta parade if a 
number of vaqueros and their friends who were excellent riders would 
appear and give an exhibition of the kind of riding and horseback sports 
that were common "before the gringo came." Xo sooner said than done. 
The idea was received with favor, and when the day of the fiesta parade 
appeared, the vaqueros were pronounced one of the leading features, and 
to many, by far the most picturesque, interesting and historic feature of the 
whole parade. From that sprang the idea of the "Vaquero Club." .Such a 
club should — as its first president. Dr. Fred C. Shurtlefif, has said — "Make 
a home where a number of congenial people could unite to perpetuate not 
only the life of the old vaquero, but help bring back many of the customs, 
sports and pleasures of the early California days : their dances, their fiestas, 
their barbecues, their riding expeditions, their dancing on horseback, and all 
the other distinctive features of the pleasures that made their life so happy. 

Dr. Shurtlefif had married a daughter of one of the old Spanish rancheros, 
hence he was acquainted with all the Spanish and Mexican families of the 
region, and no sooner was the idea broached than it was put into operation. 
A "home place" for the club was found at the ranch of Mr. J. C. Plummer. 
near Colegrove, and known as Oakhurst, and members were carefully 
chosen. The club meets regularly once a month throughout the year, when 
an old-time Spanish barbecue is provided, and feats in horsemanship, 
dancing, singing and other enjoyments indulged in. While every member 
of the club may bring his wife, sister, daughter, sweetheart or friend, there 
are only three lady members of the club, and these were elected as 
"honorary members" for special reasons. These ladies are Miss Frances 
Plummer, who was the club's first secretary, Mrs. Bottler, and Miss 
Talamantes. The members may invite visitors, but no one visitor can be 
invited more than twice the same year. The club has several distinguished 
honorary members (besides the ladies named), such as Hon. W. F. Cody 
(Bufifalo Bill). Jesus Lopez of the Fort Tejon Range, ex-President Roo-^e- 
velt and others. 



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The club has participated in all civic events of importance that have 
occurred since its organization, where horsemanship was required, such as 
the fiestas, parades, escorts of celebrities and the like. When the U. S. 
fleet anchored in the Los Angeles harbor, off San Pedro, the Vaquero Club 
escorted Admiral Evans and his officers and men. in the parade, and 
prepared a day of sports for their enjoyment. The noted horseman, Charles 
Meadows, better known as Arizona Charley, aided in this entertainment, 
which included, among other features, the holding up of an overland stage, 
and rescue by cowboys, steer tying, bull riding, handling wild and iDUcking 
broncos, throwing wild steers bv the horns, relav races, etc. 




Riding a Buctcing Kronco at the Vaquero Club, for tlie entertaininent of the H. M. ^1. B. A. 

The Vaquero Club has its own special costume, designed after the most 
approved of the Spanish-California models. It may be called the replica 
of a dandy Caballero"s costume, with all the trappings of carved leather 
saddle and bridle, with silver mountings, silver spurs and the like. The 
club originally began by using the ordinary "shaps" of the modern "cowboy." 
but it was found that this costume, while perfectly appropriate for rough 
out-door use, was neither of historic interest as showing the old-style 
costume, nor picturesque enough for fiesta occasions. 

The Club now comprises among its members many of the leading Spanish 
Californians of Southern California, judges, bankers, doctors, lawyers, 



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professors and others, all of whom are excellent horsemen, who love cross- 
country ritling. who enjoy the simple barbecued foods of the olden time, 
and who are ready to meet the handsome dark-eyed senoras and senoritas 
of Spain and ]\Iexico, or the dark-haired, blue-eyed matrons and maidens 
of California in the mazes of Spanish, German, French and American dances, 
but who (.specialh- cnjov the "soniljreni blancii," "la jota." or "la camote," 
of Spanish-California days. 

With all this romance behind it, therefore, it was appropriate that the 
S. C. 1!. A. should arrange with the \'aquero Club for a Spanish Fiesta 
Dav, during the visit of the H. M. M. I!. A. 




Joe Romero, the noted Barbecue Chef t,( the Los Angeles Vaquero Club, preparing meats for the 

entertainment of the H. M. M. B. A. 

The invitation was tssentialh' \'aquero Club style, for on the cover, 
which, ])\ the way, was tied with a strip of buckskin, was a steer, a tamale. 
a string of red peppers, a glimpse of a California mission campanile, a 
padre, and a carreta, with the United States and Mexican flags intertwined 
and bound b\' a shield bearing the monogram of the \'aquero Club. 

Inside, the contents were as characteristic, there were engravings show- 
ing the Dancing of the Iota, a carreta, a danza at the old ramada, barbe- 
cuing the meats, and a scene of a Spanish play, etc. 

The guests assembled at 10 o'clock at the Occidental Hotel, on Hill 
street, where the genial host, George \\ . \'on Ache and his two sons and 



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i)artners, Nard and Garrison, entertained them until the special cars were 
ready. The guests were quickly conveyed to the Plummer ranch where 
the headquarters of the Vaquero Club are located. Here before the tan- 
bark covered square, where the feats of horsemanship were to take place, 
an abundance of seats had been provided. After the presentation of all the 
officers of the Club, and those who were particularly to engage the attention 
of the guests, Dr. Fred C. Shurtleff, the first president and founder of the Club, 
recited in a most touching manner the following beautiful poem : 

THE COWBOY'S PRAYER 
By Charles B. Clark, Jr. 

Lord, I 've never lived where churches grow ; 
I love creation better as it stood 

That day You finished it so long ago 

And looked upon Your work and called it good. 

1 know that others find You in the light 

That 's sifted down through tinted window panes. 
And yet, I seem to feel You near to-night 
In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains. 

I thank You, Lord, that I am placed so well ; 

That You have made my freedom so complete ; 
That I'm no slave of whistle, clock and bell, 

Or weak-ej-ed prisoner of wall and street. 
Just let me live my life as I've begun 

And give me work that 's open to the sky : 
Make me a partner of the wind and sun 

And I won't ask a life that 's soft or high. 

Let me be easy on the man that "s down 

And make me square and generous with all ; 
I'm careless sometimes. Lord, when I'm in town. 

But never let them say I'm mean or small. 
Make me as big and open as the plains, 

As honest as the horse between my knees. 
Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains. 

Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze. 

Forgive me, Lord, when sometimes I forget : 

You understand the reasons that are hid. 
You know about the things that gall and fret. 

You know me better than my mother did. 
Just keep an eye on all that 's done and said. 

Just right me sometimes when I turn aside. 
And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead 

That stretches upward toward the Great Divide. 



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The cheers and applause that greeted him showed to Dr. Shurtlcff that 
both poem and its recital had thoroughly captured his Eastern audience. 

Then came the feats of horsemanship according to the program. .Vnd 
what can one say of these "feats" sa\-e that the ladies and gentlemen per- 
formed them with the spirit, the vim, the grace and the readiness of the old 
days. 

The feature of the afternoon was the riding of the wild horse, "Grave 
Digger." by Mrs. Dell Blancett of Sterling, Colorado. The vicious horse had 
to be roped and thrown before the daring woman could get on it, l)ut once 
mounted all the animal's efforts proved insufficient to unseat her. She was 
awarded the first prize b}- the judges, selected from among the hotelmen. 
and her husband was given second prize. 

In the tug-of-\var on horseback, Dick Stanley of Portland, Oregon, who 
wears the world's championship belt for riding bucking horses, was awarded 
the prize. 

Then the cry came, "To the festive board !" A large "ramada" had been 
built in primitive style and there the quaint meal was served. Alany of the 
guests had found time to visit the cooking shed, where Joe Romero, the 
noted barbecue chef, reigned supreme. The barbecue pits were giving forth 
appetizing odors, and Joe and his helpers were slicing rich meats, and cook- 
ing others over the glowing coals on a ten-foot square gridiron. Women 
were preparing huge dishes of chili and other vegetable dishes, firey hot with 
peppers, but delicious and healthful. Great steaming cans of cofifee gave 
forth the only familiar odor. 

There is no denying the fact that those Eastern guests can eat when they 
have a fair opportunity and room for their strength. Here, their appetites 
sharpened by their out door morning and ride, and breathing the pure out 
door air as they ate, they did full justice to dishes, with none of which were 
thev at first familiar. But strangeness did not seem to be any bar to appetite. 
Plate after plate full was deftly removed, and still there were calls for more. 

When all were satisfied, the dances began, and many enjoyed this feature 
of the entertainment more than any other. The first "danza" was "El Som- 
brero lilanco." To the strain of guitar, mandolin, violin, flute and cornet the 
dance began. Each movement meant something in its charming grace and 
delicate. 

This "\^■hite Hat" dance takes one back to the days of the founding of 
the city of Los Angeles. Tradition handed down from father to son, tells 
how the caravan of the founders came to El Rio Porcinuncula (the river of 
the pigs, as the Los .\ngeles river was known to the natives), and camped on 
the east bank. An old grand dame, called to her grand child to run down 
and see if he could find water. The wanderers were weary with travel and 
thirsty after their long march over the desert and waterless land. The lad 
soon returned from the river bed, so the tradition goes, with a gourd filled 
with cool, sparkling water. "For Dio. This is the Queen of the Angels," 
devoutly and thoughtfully exclaimed the thirsty woman. It was the special 
gift of the Virgin. 



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J_>;incing one of the old time Spanish Danut-s — l^a Jola — for the entertainment 
of the H. M. M. B. A. at the I^os Angeles Vaquero Club. 



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Soon the caravan was at the water's edge drinking joyfully. Then, 
refreshed and happy, they trooped u]), onto the western bank of the river, 
and as soon as camp was made, "El Paderon Blanco" (the white bluff), and 
"EI Sombrero Blanco" (the white hat), was announced. The dance is full of 
meaning. First there is the archness and coy hesitation of the maidens as 
the sweet music brings out the words from the throats of the dancers, all 
the time the dance is going on. Here is a translation of the song: 

If you wish me to love you, 

Make brick the ocean Hoor. 
.•\fter all of }-our love's labors. 

Time will tell the score. 

Still dancing, no moment at rest, comes back the answer of the cavaliers. 
It is their time to answer the problem put before them. 

I take the ocean for the water; 

For cement I take the sand ; 
Fishes will furnish brick that's needed; 

So lo ! I have won }-our hand. 

Then comes the chorus from wdiich the dance receives its name. Each 
cavalier is striving to place his sombrero on the head of his partner as he 
weaves in and out gracefully from one dark-eyed senorita to another. If 
she keeps the hat upon her head that is her acceptance of his suit. 

Here are the words to this part of the song: 

Do 3-ou wish to wear my white hat? 

Or shall my blue hat be your crown? 
What do you wish, my own true loved one, 

To place you on the throne ? 

Then followed "Los Camotes," the sweet potato dance. This used to be 
ds .cetl in the old mission days, in the patio, in grateful thankfulness for the 
abundance of the crops. It is a most graceful dance, with the caxaliers 
kneeling as the final words, "Adios, adios, Adoremos," are sung. 

La Jota, or the "flourishing joy" is a longer dance than the others. ( )nly 
a small part of it was given on this occasion, as to complete it requires fully 
three hours. 

Among the dancers on this occasion were Senor Pedro Lugo and his son 
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Plummer and their daughter, and Mrs. 
Fred C. Shurtlelif. Their dancing was pronounced by the hotelmen to be far 
more beautiful and graceful than that of the Americans. 

Manx- of the costumes worn were of extreme age, the one worn by Mrs. 
Plummer being over one hundred years old and of especial significance, it 



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having been first worn by a Spanish dame at a great state ball given in 
Monterey in early days. 

Altogether the entertainment of the Vaquero Club was most novel and 
enjoyable, as well as unique, and its memories will be long in fading from 
the minds of those who witnessed it. 

The Days of Forty-nine Smoker at Hotel Alexandria 

\\'hen night came, though most of the visitors were surfeited with sight- 
seeing, they could not resist the temptation to come out and see the Forty- 
nine Camp. As Mr. John Willey of the Hotel ]\Ionthly well said: 




At the Vaquero Club — From left to right: Charles "Silver-plater" 
Allen, Wm. Lunny, Indian girl, "Skipper" Carrigan, William Vali- 
quette and Mrs. Carrigan. 

If there had been surprises before, here surely was one that capped the 
climax ! The banquet room on the mezzanine floor had been converted into 
a Forty-niner mining camp. On entering each guest was presented with 
"Our Biznes Card," which read : 



City Direktory 

Chineze Opeum Den on Santa Fe Trail ; Lunsh Kounter, Salune and 
Roulet wheel on Square Street ; Segars, Sigerets and Faro on Paradise 
Alley ; Musick and Danse Hall on Oregon Trail ; Red Egels Flours on 
Paradise Alley ; If Vou \^'ant More Information Ast The Sheref (or look on 
other side). 



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And on the reverse side was a list of the "goods" that one could secure at 
the bar. 

The idea was to transport the visitor back fifty years or more and let 
him Hve for the evening in the days of forty-nine and the early fifties, when 
the gambler flourished, when the miner was supreme, when the barroom and 
dance hall and gambling place was the center of civic life and California 
was only beginning to awaken to the culture and progress that was to dis- 
tinguish its later years, and of which the men have seen such evidences 
during their stay in this city. 

On one side, as the visitors entered the door, was the "Last Chance" 
saloon in full operation, lighted b}' candles and lanterns, with local men 
garbed as its motley crew of nightly visitors enjoying themselves. Farther 
around the room was found the "Gold Nugget" lunch room, where the 




Roulette and Faro in the 4Sier Camp. H. M. M. B. A. smoker, Ale.xandria Hotel, 

Los Angeles. 



guests were invited to eat sandwiches and smoke. Next was the faro layout, 
with an expert dealer in charge and an expert case keeper. Huge piles of 
chips and of real money lined the sides of the table, and here, too, characters 
in cowboy and Mexican costumes kept coming and investing their surplus 
change. 

Scenes Gay in Dance Hall 

Then there was the "Grub Stake" dance hall, with its bevy of pretty 
dancing girls, who imitated to perfection the dances of years ago, to the tune 
furnished by a ragged ragtime jiiano player. \vho operated on the old well- 
battered piano. 

Hanging from the middle of the dance hall was the sign, "Remember 

the dancing girls is ladies — Don't get gay or they are liable to shoot h 

out of you." 



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Beyond the dance hall was, perhaps, the most interesting feature of the 
whole affair. In a little hole in the wall lay two real Chinamen smoking 
genuine opium as only the Chinese know how. With loving care each one 
roiled and cooked his little "pill" of "hop" and smoked it while the guests 
stood and looked on. This feature was under the care of "Lame Jack." one 
of the best-known characters of the local Chinese colony, who said he was 
having hard work to keep his celestials there, owing to the fact that they 
hated to be watched in their operations. 

Further on was the roulette wheel, under the charge of a skilful manipu- 
lator, and this also had stacks of chips and money on it. The guests were 
shown just how it was operated and witnessed the fictitious winning and 
losing of sums of monev on its festive whirl. 




The Last ■•Chanst" .Saloon, in the '49er Camp, Alexandria Hotel smnkei- for the H. M. M. B. A. 



In the center of the back wall of the room was a waterfall, which added 
the final wild, out-of-doors touch to the whole. Around the side were street 
lamps with directions for the strangers printed upon them, and on each post 
were warnings telling all what not to do. One of these, near the faro 
outfit, stated that "The management would not support the widders of gents 
holding five aces." In the saloon were such warnings as "partner name 
your pizen," "a bonanza of boose," "this is no bank ; cough up your dust 
and float away," "straight whiskey — 25 ; straighter — 50." Thrown across 
the hitching rail in front was a beautifully mounted saddle and bridle, left 
there supposedly by some cowboy on the inside enjoying himself. 

While the fun in the mining camp was at its height, a minstrel troupe 
appeared on the scene. It was made up entirely of members of the New 
York special. John McGlynn, of the Rensselear. Troy, X. Y., with a great 
bass voice, rather hoarse from the strain of talking all week, acted as inter- 



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lociitor. F. N. Bain, president of the New York Hotel Men's Association, 
led the band, all playing tin horns and baby drums. Frederick Austin Reed, 
of the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, and Edward M. Tierney, of the Marl- 
borough, New York, the men who brought the New Yorkers across the 
desert, were the end men. Their line of talk was conclusive in its 
foolishness. 

It was a sparkling and fascinating scene and evidently pleased every- 
body. Another of the interesting features was, as Mr. Henry J. Bohn wrote, 
that, "Mingled with the crowd, were a number of the leading citizens of 
Los Angeles, made up as characters of the '49 days, miners, cowboys, tender- 
feet. Spanish brigands. \\'eary-\\'illies. etc., even including a live burro that 
makes itself at home in the crowded room. We are carried awav with 





A glimpse of Paradise Alle.v in '49er Camp. H. M. M. B. A. smoker, Alexandria Hotel, 

L.OS Angeles, Cal. 



admiration for the ingenuitv and versatility of the scene, and surely it must 
have required an .\laddin"s lamp in the hands of Joe Reichl, assistant 
manager of the Alexandria, whom his superior, Mr. Whitmore, gives credit 
for the production of this wonderful picture. Never, no. never, will the 
H. .M. M. B. A. ladies and gentlemen forget the Ale.xandria 'smoker.' It is 
one iif the things one can not forget, and to conceive, produce and carry out 
such a picture of the rough, wild days of California without offending the 
feelings or sensibilities of any sensible minded man or woman, yet instruct 
entertain and charm, is surely a great feat." 



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Millo ir. Pottei-, Proprietor ■>!' Hotel Potter, Sunta Harbara. California. 



CHAPTER X 

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1910— SANTA BARBARA AND 
SAN LUIS OBISPO DAY 

At midnight of Saturday the special trains left Los Angeles for Santa 
Barbara. \\'hen the guests awoke on the morning of Sunday they were 
opposite the beautiful Mission depot of the Southern Pacific Co., and directly 
across the way were the grounds of the striking Hotel Potter, whose fame 
had already reached from the Pacific to the Atlantic. 

Mr. Harry D. Clark, of the New Arlington Hotel, with his charming wife 
and sweet little daughter, were waiting at the depot with a bus-load of 
flowers, which they distributed broadcast, especially showering the ladies 
with their sweetness, beauty and fragrance. 

It was a walk of a few moments to reach the large dining-room of this 
beautiful hotel, where an excellent breakfast — such as have made Milo M. 
Potter's name famous throughout the Epicurean world — was provided. 
After doing full justice to this, the visitors thronged the hotel, enjoying its 
various unique features, wandered through the fifteen-acre geranium garden, 
went down to the bathhouse, took an automobile ride or went up to service 
at the old Mission. Through the courtesy of Mr. Joseph P. McCann, the 
New York party was taken for a drive to Santa Barbara i\Iission. Later 
on, while the Chicago and New England delegations were being entertained 
at luncheon at Hotel Potter, the New Yorkers were lunched as the guests 
of Mr. McCann. 

The Potter Hotel 

The Potter Hotel is built on the knoll formerly occupied by Burton's 
Spring House. 

It was erected in 1902 and represents an investment of more than a 
million and a quarter of dollars. 

It has accommodations for one thousand guests, and is open all the year. 

Every room is an outside room with outlook on either mountain or sea. 

It sits in a floral park of thirty-si.x acres — aljout one thousand feet from 
the sea. Its mile-long walk, bordered with brilliant geraniums, is one of the 
sights of California. 

There are more than thirt}- thousand rose bushes in the rose gardens, 
while the cacti and other gardens afl'orcl interesting botanical studies. 

The broad palm-bordered boulevard between the Potter grounds and the 
beach is the popular promenade of Santa Barbara. 

Santa Barbara has long been famous for its climate, the most equable 
and delightful known to man. Naples. Nice, Cairo, Honolulu and the 
Islands of the Sea do not compare with it in climatic advantages. 



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r. 


). Clark hrouglit i 
o the station at 
le ladies of the 
and Mrs. Clark 
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Seaward, the long shore Hue runs ahnost east and west, with a greater 
exposure to the southern sun than any other bit of coast line on the Pacific. 
Landward, the rock-ribbed range of the Santa Ynez Mountains crowds up 
close to the sea, encircling the valley like a protecting bulwark, shutting off 
alike both excessive heat and cold. 




One corner of Hotel Potter. Santa Barbara. California. 

A more charming environment can not be imagined, and the Hotel 
Potter in its matchless situation provides everything to enable the visitor 
to enjoy the advantages of climate and surroundings to the utmost. 

Hotel Potter is an immense establishment in the old Mission style of 
architecture. It has wide verandas, roof gardens and sun porches, from 
which an inspiring view of the Santa Barbara Channel with the purple 



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On tlie Veranda of the Potter Country Club — -iverlooking the Polo Field. 




On the Racetrack at the Potter Country Club. 



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islands in the distance, or the mighty mountains, is obtained. This channel 
is the official place where speed tests of U. S. warships, built on the coast. 
are always made. Hotel Potter crowns the knoll formerly known as Burton 
Mound, on which for unknown centuries a healing sulphur spring of won- 
derful medicinal quality has bubbled forth. The hotel is built over this 
and the water still sparkles up into a marble basin, in the lobby. The 
beautiful grounds surround the building, extending down to the Palm 
Boulevard which fronts on the beach and the sea. 

In them one finds acres of velvet lawns, towering palms, rose gardens 
containing thousands of rose bushes which bloom almost the year through, 
a full mile of asphalt walks and driveways, bordered by banks of scarlet 
geraniums, cactus gardens, lily beds, and hundreds of other flowers and 
shrubs. In one part of the grounds is a menagerie and deer park, containing 
specimens of California deer. Here, also, are located the garage and livery 
stables. 

Four excellent tennis courts are found within the hotel grounds. These 
are of asphalt and up to the full regulation professional requirements. 
Spectators' seats adjoin. 

"Los Banos Del Mar," as the baths which are situated on the beach, 
within three minutes' walk of Hotel Potter, are called, furnish ample 
accommodation for all who indulge in sea bathing. They are equipped with 
large tanks, into which warm salt water is pumped, and have the spring 
boards, slides and other equipment for the pleasure of the bathers. From 
there, it is but a step to the beach, where the gentle surf comes rolling in 
without undertow. The summer temperature of the water is from 68° to 
74°, falling on rare occasions in winter to 60°. 

Hotel Potter table has long been recognized as the standard by which 
others are judged, ^^'hile there are man}- reasons for this, two of them 
stand out unique. The first is that Hotel Potter maintains its own dairy 
and stock ranch, on which the milk, eggs, vegetables, butter, cream and 
cheese and much of the pork, beef, veal and lamb used on its table, are 
produced. It also has its own squab and poultry ranch, conducted exclu- 
sivelv for its use, and some sixty thousand birds are raised here annually. 

In the harbor are anchored many private yachts, sailing boats and high- 
powered motor boats. Santa Barbara Channel is one of the most attractive 
to the yachtsman, and each year the annual regattas which are held here 
bring a fleet together of white-sailed vessels and power boats representing 
nearly every important club on the Coast. During these events the Hotel 
Potter is the recognized headquarters and the center of all the social 
activities. 

The Santa Barbara Channel affords splendid deep-sea fishing and many 
large catches are made there each season. Yellow-tail, barracuda, tuna, sea 
bass, rock cod and many others are among the most plentiful. 

The Potter Country Club as an adjunct to the Hotel Potter, offers its 
members and guests not only every facility for all sorts of out-door sports, 
but the comforts and conveniences of any first-class club. 



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It occupies about one hundred and fifty acres of the celebrated Hope 
Ranch. It is five miles from the Hotel Potter, and is reached by automobile 
bus which leaves the hotel on schedule time each day, or by horseback, 
carriage, or private motor over excellent roads. 

The clubhouse is commandingly situated on a knoll above Laguna 
Blanca, a pretty fresh water lake about seventy-five acres in extent. It is 
charming in style and is equipped with lockers and baths for men and 
women, a comfortable grill and buffet, card rooms and a spacious lounging 
room with a massive stone fireplace and many windows. 

From the verandas of the clubhouse almost the whole of the club grounds 
can be seen — the polo field and race track, the golf course and the pleasing- 
approach of Palm Avenue, which leads in from the main gate of the ranch. 




The Pagoda of an Italian A'illa at Santa Barbai'a. A millionaire's sliow-place in 

the foothills of the mountains. 

The Potter Country Cluli grill is operated in conjunction with tlie Potter 
Hotel dining-room, which is famed for its excellent cuisine and service. 
Breakfasts, luncheons and teas are served either in the dainty grill room or 
on the verandas — "al fresco," looking out upon the mountains and the 
wooded hills. Tempting southern dishes and the highl}' seasoned Spanish 
cookery are made a specialty at the club. 

The polo field is of full regulation size, surrounded l^y an exercise and 
race track, five-eighths of a mile long. Ample stabling accommodations for 
ponies are provided on the field and at the Potter stables. 

On this field many hard fought contests for supremacy take place. Santa 
Barbara has its own excellent team, as has the Potter Country Club, Coro- 
nado, Los Angeles, I^asadena and ISurlingame. 

Members of the Potter Country Club need not go far afield for excellent 
fishing. Back in the fastnesses of the mountains are streams which will 
test the angler's skill. Here brook trout and steel-head are to be found 
during the season. These fishing grounds can be conveniently reached. 



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On the Celebrated Cliff Drive at Hope Ranch Park, Santa Barbara. 




View of the Golf Course at Hope Ranch Park from Country Club Veranda. 



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Hunting is good within a reasonable distance of the Potter Country Club. 
Quail, doves, rabbits and squirrels abound. In the season thousands of 
wild ducks and geese are to be seen on the marshes. If one cares to go a 
day's journey or so into the mountains, he will find deer, bear and mountain 
lions. The lover of sport will find ample opportunity here. 

Santa Barbara is essentially a city of homes. The warm, equable climate, 
superb scenery and situation attract the cultured and refined from all parts 
of the world. Its streets are lined with beautiful modern homes contrasting 
sharply with some of the old adobes which still remain. In scarcely any 
other part of this country can one find more beautiful homes and grounds 
than here. 

The Old Mission, founded by the Franciscan Fathers in 1782, was the 
center about which the town of Santa Barbara grew. It is the best 
preserved of all the California Missions. 

Hope Ranch Park, Santa Barbara 

One of the delightful features of the stop at Santa Barbara was the visit 
to Hope Ranch Park, a magnificent tract of wooded land about three miles 
from town. This belongs to the Pacific Improvement Company of San 
I'rancisco and here is being developed one of the finest residence parks in 
the world. Hope Ranch Park has long been one of the show places of Santa 
Barbara. Even before the present development was started, the Clift' Drive, 
a roadway which winds through its caiions and along the cliffs of its ocean 
frontage had been known as one of the most celebrated roadways of the Coast. 
Hope Ranch Park consists of two thousand acres of land. It has a long 
frontage on the sea with the blue Channel Islands in the distance, and extends 
back from the ocean a distance of nearly fwo miles. The Southern Pacific 
skirts its northern border and has a station "Hope Ranch" on the property. 
From Santa Barbara, Hope Ranch Park is reached by either the Modoc Road 
or Hollister Avenue. Both of these are excellent highways and afford a 
delightful motor trip through the shaded streets of the old town, lined with 
picturesque flower embowered homes along great avenues of trees, past well 
cultivated walnut and orange orchards until the massive stone gatewaN'S of 
the Park are reached. Here the scene changes, for once within the gates one 
feels as though in a different country. A fine macadam boulevard forty feet 
wide, leads through rows of stately palms from the north gate, due south to 
the ocean extending the whole length of the Park. About midway it enters a 
winding canon, through which entrance is gained to both the beach and also 
to the headlands which rise 2C0 feet above it. This road is the "Cliff' Drive," 
about which so much has been written and it holds front rank among the lieau- 



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tiful drives of the world. In the development of this magnificent tract, the 
owners ntilized the Cliff Drive and radiated the new roads from it. ]\Iany 
miles of new macadam roads have been built, winding through the oak 
groves, threading the shallow canons and crossing the hilltops until everv 
spot in the Park has been made accessible and available for building. New 
homes are being built on the knolls and it will be but a short time until the 
Park becomes a thickly settled colony. 

Country Club in Hope Ranch Park 

Realizing that a nucleus is needed to attract home builders, the owners 
of Hope Ranch I'ark lia\c laid out an extensive and elaborate countrv club 




From the Veranda of the Country Club at Hope Ranch Park Womlerful Views are 

Obtained. 



on its grounds. A charming club-house has been erected on a low hill over- 
looking Laguna Blanca, a fresh water lake of some eighty acres extent on the 
property which adds a delightful feature to the landscape. At the club an 
excellent grill is maintained, assuring those who live in the Park of good 
service and cuisine at all times. Close by the club-house are the Golf Links. 
A nine hole course of unecjualed sportiness and variety. On the flat ground 
below the club and not far from Laguna Blanca is the polo field where the 
annual polo games are held each winter. Tennis courts ami other out door 



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games are provided for near the club, while in doors all the usual amusements 
are found. Hope Ranch Park is an ideal place for an all-the-year-round home. 
No more lovely climate than Santa Barbara can be found. It is even warm 
and delightful at all seasons of the year. In picturesque setting Hope Ranch 
Park is likewise without rival. To the north and east the purpling mountains 
of the Santa Ynez range form an ever-changing background. Well to the 
seaward is the broad Pacific and the Channel Islands. The topography of 




On the Golf Links of the Country Club at Hope Ranch Park. 



Hope Ranch Park is such that one can find any location desired on which to 
build a home. There are rolling hills that afford limitless landscape possi- 
bilities, with superb scenery of mountain, valley ami sea, on either hand. 
There are snug valleys that in\ite the builder to erect his home within their 
sheltered slopes and broad, flat mesas thickly co\'ered with great oaks like 
an English park. Hope Ranch Park is close enough to Santa Barbara to be 
a part of it and yet not in it. It is but a few minutes" ride over this hard, 
smooth road from the town to the Park and with the settlement of it there 
come the establishment of rapid railroad transportation from Hope Ranch 
station to Santa Barbara. Hope Ranch Park is a factor of considerable 
importance in Santa Barbara county and its increase will be watched with 
interest bv all who ha\e visited it. 



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The New Arlington Mission Hotel 

From the "Hotel Monthly" we take the following in regard to the New 
Arlington Hotel, in course of construction : 

"The Arlington Hotel of Santa Barbara, one of the oldest and best 
known resort houses on the Pacific Coast, was recently destroyed by fire, 
and is about to be rebuilt on a much larger scale. The annex of the old 
hotel is now open and conducted by our old friend, Harry D. Clarke, 
formerly of the Evans, in Hot Springs, S. D. He has financed the new 
Arlington and work upon its construction is to be rushed, so that it will be 
ready for guests by January of next year. The accompanying illustration 
pictures the new hotel, which is a reproduction of seven of the old missions 
of the coast. It will be of concrete, fireproof, occupy a five-acre lot, and be 
700 feet from end to end. It will contain 200 guest rooms and 55 rooms 
for help. A feature of the house is that every two rooms will have bath- 




General view from Architect Benton'.s drawing of tlie new Arlington Mission Hotel, non- 
being built for Harry D. Clark, at Santa Barbara, Cal. 

room between them, and in the bathroom will be tub only; but every guest 
room in the house will have both its own private toilet and lavatory. The 
bar and grill room will be located in the basement. A unique feature of the 
conveniences will be private fireproof sheds for automobiles; and there will 
be a special sunken driveway for automobiles entering the hotel. In the 
near future we will print floor plans of this hotel showing the novel layout. 
J. F. Lillie is chief clerk of the Arlington." 

San Luis Obispo 

Luncheon was served to the guests at Hotel Potter, after which the 
trains left for San Luis Obispo. 

Here a brief stop was made and an automobile and carriage ride enjoyed 
throughout the city, showing how rapidly it had made progress during the 
past few vears, and also giving an opportunity to see the new Hotel 
Andrews, 'recently erected by F. J. McHenry. Though it was Sunday 



228 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. :\I. B. A. 

afternoon, tlie ladies were out in force and they pinned badges upon the 
guests which read: "Greetings — Woman's Civic Club and Chamber of 
Commerce — San Luis Obispo, California, April 17th, 1910." Eatables and 
drinkables were served and flowers galore bestowed upon all who were not 
already surfeited with them. 

Here the Southern California committee turned the guests over to the 
California Hotel Association with their "adios," in which they said: "We 
consign 30U to the tender mercies of the San Francisco Hotel Men's Asso- 
ciation, whose members are noted for their Goodfellowship, Energy, Enter- 
prise, Courage and JMagnificent Hotels. They justlj^ represent San Fran- 
cisco, the ]\Iagic City, the Metropolis of the Pacific Coast. Here the 
Southern California H. j\I. A. bids you a cordial and lingering farewell, and 
reminds you that this coupon is good for a return trip to Los Angeles, where 
you will always be welcome by the Southern California Hotel Men's 
Association." 

But, as Henry J. Bohn aptly put it in the "Hotel ^^'orld" : "And so here 
we find ourselves in the hands of new hosts, and yet so quietly and so 
modestly does this transfer take place that none of us are aware of it, and 
we doubt if even the statuesque and gallant Charles A. Cook, manager of 
the Fairmont at San Francisco, and head of the entertainment committee, 
realizes that there has been any transfer, for Brother Cook has been with 
us from the very start, and with ^Mitchell, Loomis. and George \\'harton 
James, who are with us. we do not feel that we are in strange hands." 

The San Francisco delegation comprised Kirk Harris, of the Grand and 
Hamlin ; Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wilson, of the St. Francis ; Mr. Cook of 
the Fairmont; ]\Irs. Morris, of the \'ictoria. and also H. T. Blethen, F. D. 
Pierce, F. P. Shanley, R. H. Gatley, C. J. Travis, A. Steinberg, C. A. 
Steward, all of San Francisco ; Dr. F. W. Sawyer, of Paso Robles, and JNIr. 
H. W. Lake, of San Jose. 

The other San Francisco committees were made up as follows : 

Ladies' Entertainment Committee — Mrs. W. F. Morris, chairman. 

Souvenir Committee — Gus C. Larm. chairman ; J. ^^'. Shanahan, R. S. 
Pressley. 

Entertainment Committee — C. A. Cooke, chairman ; J. E. Alexander, 
F. J. Fallon, J. J. Crawford, F. P. Shanley. 

Banquet Committee — E. S. De Wolfe, chairman ; Alvah B. Wilson, 
Obadiah Rich. 

Finance Committee — J. C. Kirkpatrick. chairman; Edward Rolkin, C. A. 
Stewart, Ike Harris. J. D. Wilson, P. A. Young. F. L. Turpin. 



CHAPTER XI 

PASO ROBLES AND ITS HOT SPRINGS HOTEL 

After a delightful ride over the Santa Lucia Mountains, with its glorious 
outlooks into deep wooded ravines, quiet little valleys, the fertile region of 
San Luis Obispo, and, when the range was crossed, of the Santa Margarita 
Valley, the trains reached Paso Robles just in time for dinner. 

This is the most famous hot springs resort of the Pacific Coast, and one 
of the most noted in America. Two years ago, it had the eyes of the world 




Hot .Springs Hutel, Pasu Robles, California. 



as the recuperating quarters of Fighting Admiral Bob Evans, who was here 
ridding himself of rheumatism while his command of battleships sailed 
prouilly up the coast on their return from around the world. 

The Admiral was attracted to Paso Robles by the reports of the excel- 
lency of its mud baths and its hot sulphur waters, so, after leading the 
biggest fleet of long cruising battleships the world ever saw through three 
zones, hot weather, cold weather, fair weather, stormy weather, was just 
about put out of action by an old foe. rheumatism, by the time he reached 
Alagdalena Bay. and it was the most natural thing in the world that he 
^■hould leave the fleet and set sail bv boat and rail for Paso Robles. Here 




Copyright by, and used with kind permission of, Enrique Muller. 
ADMIRAI^ ROBLEY D. EVANS. 



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he was speedily made so well that he rode through the Golden Gate on his 
flagship to the cheers of the greatest crowd ever on San Francisco hills. 

Later, I will describe the hotel and the great bathhouse, but before going 
further I wish to say a few words about the mud baths. These are different 
from the major part of those found in .America. The patient is not put on 




A glimpse through the trees of Paso Robles Hot Springs Hotel. California. 

a cot, or in a small compartment, and the mud put on him by handfuls. 
but he goes to the actual hot spring where the mud is found by the thousand 
tons. Here, inside the mud bathhouse a wooden frame has been built 
around the spring. Steps lead down into it. and one steps down and allows 
himself to slide into the mud through which hot water at just the right 



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temperature (110° to 116° Fahr.) is percolating and bubbling with constant 
flow. Here, then, is a real mud bath. You can force yourself into its soft 
and yielding embrace as far as you like, pile it over your body as you choose, 
stay in one position as long as you like, or change to as many positions as 
you like, entirely difterent from the cot or compartment mud-bath system. 
The mud is kept in a state of perfect cleanliness and antiscpticism by the 
constant flow of hot sterilizing and purifying waters, and there is nothing in 
the world equal to it for the way in which it extracts noxious poisons from 
system. 




The Percussion and Altei'nate Douche, in tlie Ladies' Department, 
Paso Robles Hot .Springs Kurhaus. 

Some years ago I was bitten by a rattlesnake and for some days it was 
feared I might die. The poison swelled up my arm until it was as big as 
my thigh, and a big black spot covered the base of my breastbone as if I 
had been struck by a cannon ball. In the course of time I recovered enough 
to attend to mv regular duties, but occasionally, every two or three months, 
I would suffer untold agonies by a peculiar solidification of the stomach 
(which was one of the symptoms that developed immediately after I was 
poisoned). This condition was accompanied with none of the ordinary 
symptoms of stomach trouble, and was supposedly caused by the lodgment 
of some of the poison in the intra-costal lining. Now and again this poison 



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was rendered active and hence the intense suffering. The paroxysms con- 
tinued for eight or ten hours and were ahnost l^eyond the power of human 
endurance. After suffering in this way, every few months, for a year and 
a half, I resolved to take a full course of treatments at the Paso Robles 




A romantic Woodland Walk to Lake Ysahel. 



luud baths. In two weeks' time, with a mud bath one day and a hot sulphur 
bath the next, alternating, I was entirely cured, and now, though about 
five years have elapsed I have never since had a touch of the poison pains. 
At the same time I lost a life-long weak back, supposedly caused by 
"kidney trouble," which the baths absolutelv cured, so that for the first 




L,aUf Vsahel. nil Santa Vsahei Kanrlin. iit-ar i'aso i:;i.lilt-s. I'al 



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time in mv life I have been free from that curscil and everlastingly 
enervating feeling of a "pain in the small of my back." 

I give these personal experiences knowing that they will have weight 
with mv many friends, for I can not extol too highly the wonderful 
advantages of the Paso Roljles mud baths. 




.A. Path where metlitative fancies have full play. 



Paso Robles Hot Springs is on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific, 
half way between the two principal cities of the California seaboard — Los 
Angeles and San Francisco. Its musical Spanish name means the Pass of 
the Oaks, and it was threaded of old by the trail of the padres, later by a 
wagon road, and now by the railway. Here four daily trains pass each 
way, and the rapidity of travel, its comfort — even luxury — is in striking 
contrast with the dusty trail of the sandaled priests. Yet the poetry of that 
early pastoral life still lingers. Here is the little Salinas River, here on the 



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west the Santa Lucia Mountains, and on the east the Coast Range. Santa 
Barbara and Los Angeles are to the south ; Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Jose 
and San Francisco to the north. The trim little country town has about 
1,500 people, and lies in a narrow part of the Salinas Valley, uhere the 
rolling uplands crowd close down to the river. 

The elevation is 720 feet above the sea, twenty miles away as the crow 
flies. Karlsbad in Bohemia, Baden Baden in Germany, and Kissengen in 
the valley of the Saale have the same elevation. A diversified landscape of 
quiet beauty stretches away on every side. The Santa Lucia Range shuts 
out ocean fogs on the west ; the Coast Range on the east raises a barrier 
between us and the warm interior valley. Hills and dales, winding canons 




One of the beautiful Drives near Paso Robles. 



and wide uplands are studded with oaks, dignified, wide-branched, attractive 
— an oak-land park. The roads wind in a labyrinth of curves up and down 
the river, among the rounded hills, through narrow defiles, o\er upland 
pastures and among orchards and meadows, where Holsteins graze Ijeneath 
the trees. 

A delightful dri\e of a few minutes and the oak-forested estate of Santa 
Ysabel spreads before us, with its beautiful lake of mineral water, and hot 
springs pouring out 600,000 gallons daily. Yonder the little rivc-r Nacim- 
iento sings through a wilderness of its own, a line of light in the landscape, 
or hidden in the depth of its canons. Here is the San Miguel Mission, 



240 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

substantia! after one hundred years, though built of mud — a climatic pointer; 
westward are the mountain walls, verdure clad, with natural gateways 
opening into charming nooks and little valleys ; the hillsides, in late October 
often a mist of green following the first rains ; in February, often a veritable 
field of the cloth of gold from the spreading cups of the Eschscholtzia — 
California's cup of gold, the poppy. Seen in brown summer or green winter, 
the region will interest you. 

Hot Springs should be located in the best climate. They are not always. 
They bubble and flow quite regardless of convenience. Nature did not plan 
them with reference to human need or comfort. Some of the most famous 
springs of the world have been helpful for generations in spite of climatic 
disadvantages. But at Paso Robles the climate matches the springs, as if 
both were ordained by Heaven for the relief of human ills. Perhaps they 
•were. 

The springs are of various kinds — soda, iron, or chalybeate, mud. or 
moor, sulphur, and lithia. Analysis shows the chemical elements which are 
found in the most famous springs of Europe and America, in about the same 
proportion. They are sulphurous and alkaline, and vary in temperature from 
60° to 122° Fahrenheit. They have proved in\'aluable in rheumatic, blood, 
glandular and cutaneous affections, in kidney and bladder irritations, in 
catarrhal and other troubles of the mucous membranes, in anemia, malarial 
poisoning, and the nervous disorders requiring the tonic effect of water 
treatment, ^\'ater is more and more widely used in. the recovery of nervous 
breakdowns resulting from overwork or other causes, and outdoor life is 
considered of vast value. California's mineral and medicinal springs are the 
equal of any in the world, and they have the immense advantage of being 
set in the midst of si'.'h climatic conditions as constantly invite to the outer 
air. Here the quality of the waters and of the air makes an inviting place 
for rest, for recuperation, for constitutional treaiment, or for recreation. 

The Springs are not a mere adjunct to the hotel; the hotel was built 
because the Springs were here and were locally celebrated, and the great 
bath-house was added because the Springs and the equable and tonic air 
of the region have a reputation abroad, and to meet a demand for the very 
best facilities. 

The hotel is of red brick, three stories high, and with a frontage of about 
three hundred feet. The verandas are broad, as befits the Land of the Sun, 
the rooms are large, the dining-room cheerful, and great wood fireplaces are 
a feature. 

The hotel is faced by extensive grounds, well kept. A cozy clubhouse 
stands among the oaks, with wade verandas, and there are ten-pins and 
billiards, tennis courts and croquet grounds. 

The new bath-house is connected with the hotel by an inclosed arcade. 
It runs from the solarium, or sun-room, of the hotel to the office of the 
great Kurkaus. For this is more than a place in which to take baths. It is 
an establishment equipped for the widest and wisest application of water 
for refreshment and the cure of disease. The name for such a use of water 




The Drive from Paso Robles to Santa Ysabel reminds one of an English Park. 




Lake Ysabel al)ove the pre-liistoric Dam. 



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is hydrotherapy or hydriatric, and the institution at Paso Robles is arranged 
for the widest uses which experience has suggested and for the greatest 
convenience of use. It represents the latest knowledge and combines the 
latest appliances and discoveries of value. The best features of many estab- 
lishments in both the Atlantic States and in Europe have been installed. 
There are many larger places, especially on the Continent of Europe, struc- 
tures more showy, representing large expenditures and built to accommodate 
large numbers, but to get the benefit of the most valuable features of 
hydrotherapy a guest must visit several separate establishments. Here the 
g-reat features of water treatment in all forms, from hot to cold, steam to 




The forest Patli to the B;ith Houses at Lake Ysabel. 



ice, vapor to mud ])acks, under pressure or without, its mechanical as well 
as its thermic action, are brought into one building and combined under one 
management in the most attractive form. 

A great phinge bath 40x80 feet of graduated depth, supplied directly 
from the flowing well. 

The attendants are selected from Swedish or other colleges, experts in 
physical culture, massage, friction, bath-giving and nursing, and are under 
the direction of a resident physician who will prescribe and regulate the 
treatment. 

Simon Baruch, M. D., of New York, the most eminent authority in 
America on hydro-therapeutics, spent two months in the model Kurhaus at 



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its opening, directing nurses, masseurs and attendants, and supervising the 
working of all parts of the institution. Apparatus which he has invented 
or approved is used throughout the building. 

As an institution it is the most complete of its kind in any countr_y, yet 
it is believed that the treatment given here will cost less than anywhere else, 
while the climatic advantages can not be reckoned in dollars and cents. 

Here are three factors which make for comfort, for rest and recreation 
and health — the hot springs, the hotel, and the bath-house and its appliances. 
These are set in the midst of a pleasing landscape, in a climatic equilibrium 
quite unrivaled, and the invitation is to the roads and the fields, to excur- 
sions on foot and on horseback, to carriage ride and auto run, to the use 
of the camera and the gun. For among the oaks and on the hillsides are 
many doves, snipe, wild pigeon, and quail, and further afield a deer may be 
found, while about the hotel are the tennis courts and games in the open. 
It all works toward physical renewal — the baths, the exercise, the fresh air, 
the diversion of the mind, the forgetting of self, the mental and physical 
tonic alike reacting upon blood and nerve. 




Clubhouse Paso KmM 



An appetizing and most satisfactory dinner was served to the 11. M. 
M. B. A. by prompt and efficient waitresses. While some were dining, 
others were enjoying to the full a swim in the great warm plunge, some a 
bath of one kind, and some of another. Dr. F. W. Sawyer, the medical 
director and manager of the hotel was everywhere, carefully and tactfully 
looking after the comfort of the guests, all of whom expressed themselves 
as delighted with this experience at the great Hot Springs resort of 
America, whose tremendous flows of hot water in their several springs, 
magnificent bath-house, perfect and elaborate equipment, wonderful natural 
mud baths, they had not expected to find on the Pacific Coast. 



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Hotel Del Monte, the Paradise of the Pacific, in its wonderful i:aik of trees, flowers 

and lawns. 



CHAPTER XII 

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1910— HOTEL DEL MONTE, PEBBLE BEACH 
LODGE AND THE SEVENTEEN-MILE DRIVE 

At ten o'clock on Sunday night the special trains left Paso Robles and 
next morning early "brought to" on the side tracks at Hotel Del Monte. 
When the guests woke up they found themselves already arrived and greeted 
with beautiful smiling "Del Monte" weather. 

\Vith their usual large-hearted hospitality, the Pacific Improvement Cum- 
pany. through their genial General Manager, A. D. Shepard, proffered break- 
fast and luncheon and the circuit of the seventeen-mile drive to the H. M. 
M. B. A. The breakfast was perfectly up to the high standard for which 
Del Monte is world-famous, and the luncheon \^•as more of a banquet, than 
the modest meal its name implies. A special menu was provided, on which. 
"Welcome H. M. M. 15. A." was stamped in gold on purple background. 

During breakfast the writer announced that Manager H. R. ^^'arner was 
ill in bed, suffering from an attack of appendicitis and that he was about to 
undergo an operation. \\'ith one voice the sympathetic guests responded 
to the suggestion to send him their heartiest sympathy and good wishes, at 
the same time their thanks for the hospitality he had so generously extended 
to them, and which his assistants. Chief Clerk Emett S. Husted and Steward 
S. C. Hart, hail so eff'ertively rendered available. 

Hotel Del Monte 

Hotel Del Monte is of Swiss architecture, with turreted and pinnacled 
skyline and broad, comfortable verandas. The word "Alonte" in Spanish 
means either mountain or forest, and the latter meaning determined its 
application to the hotel, owing to the thickly wooded park which surrounds 
it. The building is in shape of a gigantic letter E. The main structure and 
the two widely separated annexes are connected by curved fireproof arcades. 
The dining-room is in the plaza between them. It has a seating capacity 
of 750 guests. 

The hotel has over five hundred rooms, every one of which is an outside 
one, with outlook from its windows upon the gardens, the forest, the bay or 
the mountains. 

A day can easily be spent exploring the grounds of Del Monte. At every 
turn new beauties are unfolded. Here are flower gardens of many kinds — ■ 
grassy lawns — mighty trees. The Arizona cacti (or desert) garden is a 
unique collection of sixty-three varieties of desert growths. 

The Sylvan walk, by which approach to the golf links is made, winds 
beneath great Druid oaks, bearded with Spanish moss like the prophets of 



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H. R. Warner, Manager Hotel Del Monte, California. 



H. R. Warner is one of the best known and 
best beloved of California's hotel men. He has 
had a large e.\perience in the hotel world, and 
lias thus gained a ripe experience. Always 



progressive and advancing, he has demon- 
strated his ability in his present position as 
the managing head of the world famed Hotel 
Del Monte. 



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247 



old. The grounds of Del jMonte have been under expert care of the 
landscape gardeners for a quarter of a century and are among the finest 
examples of the art to be seen in America. 

Here are lawns and flower beds, covering about 125 acres. Here, also, 
are assembled all the principal trees of the Pacific Coast, and many of them 
are labeled and classified so that the}' can be easily identified. The green- 
houses are a delight and the gardens are a continuous kaleidoscope of 
changing blossoms. 







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The grounds of Del JMontc contain 1,366 different varieties of plant life. 
This list includes 78 varieties of coniferous trees, 210 varieties of evergreen 
trees and shrubs, 63 varieties of cacti in the Arizona garden, 285 varieties 
of herbaceous plants, and 90 varieties of roses. 

Down by the Laguna Del Rev are new tennis courts, and here are played 
each year the championship games of the coast. Close by, also, is the large 
rose garden, and here is the maze, a copy of the famous maze at Hampton 
Court. Near here is St. John's Chapel, an attractive little place of worship, 
which is well filled each Sabbath by hotel guests. 

At the end of the main hall off the lobby, attractive clubrooins for ladies 
and gentlemen will be found. Here one finds ample provision for amuse- 
ment — at billiards, bowling, etc. 



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A comfortable grill, with service at all hours, is operated in connection. 
In the parlors and other rooms are card tallies, -where friendly games may 
be enjoyed. 

The Hotel Del Monte Art Gallery was opened April 20, 1"?07. It was 
established for the purpose of giving to the painters of California an exhibi- 
tion hall and salesroom devoted to California art exclusively. 

The gallery is under the management of a committee of California artists, 
headed by the dean of the profession, William Keith, who ranks highest of 
the California painters. This committee passes judgment on the works 
submitted and arranges for their hanging in the gallery. Information rcgard- 




View of the beautiful dining room of Hotel Del ?iIonte. 



ing the pictures and the exhibitions may be obtained from the curator in 
charge. 

Here, also, is the great Del Monte pipe organ on which splendid concerts 
are given each week, in conjunction with the regular orchestra. 

The Hotel Del Monte Golf Course 

Del Monte is pecuHarly fortunate in the situation of its golf course. 
Five minutes' walk from the hotel office finds one on the grounds. This 
proximitv enables one to dress for the game in their own rooms if desired. 
The golf course is full 18 holes. The distance around is 4,934 yards. The 
course is laid beneath the spreading live oaks, over rolling ground. The 
arrangement of the holes is such as to bring out the individuality of each 



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player's game. This golf course attracts not only the skilled player who 
appreciates the superlative excellence of its arrangement and condition, but 
the average player as well. The jnitting greens, all of \vhich are of grass, 
are big and wide enough to hold a pitched approach, and the bunkers 
guarding them are so constructed as to forbid the possibility of "steeple- 
chasing" which is easy and remunerative on hard ground with the resilient 
rubber-cored ball. The greens are not only large, but are kept in the best 
possible condition, water being conveyed by pipe to all of them and men 
being constantly employed in cutting and rolling. 

The teeing-grounds and the fair greens are grass sown, and on most of 
the holes a long straight drive will enable the player to reach the green in 
two. In nearly every case, however, the second shot must be straight, as 




Bii'd.se>f View from main tuwer of Hotel Del Monte, showing ea.st wing and Montere.v 

Bay. 



not only are the greens guarded by bunkers in front, but a sliced, pulled, or 
over-approached shot will land the player in trouble. Many of the greens 
are so placed that the trees on the course form good sporting hazards. 

The salt ocean breezes blend with the balsams from the pine forests 
which cover the encircling hills — producing a tonic atmosphere full of life 
and health. 

One can enjoy the game under the full sun of the hot midsummer day, 
without harmful effect — a condition almost impossible anywhere else. The 
days of the fall and winter are absolutely superb in brilliance of sunshine 
and clarity of air. 



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The golf grounds are kept in perfect condition at all times. The course 
has been under the care of expert gardeners for more than ten years and is 
rated by experts as the best eighteen-hole course on the Pacific Coast and 
one of the best in the world. It is one of the very few links on which the 
putting greens, teeing greens, and fair greens are all of grass. 

The putting greens are the delight of every player, being set entirely in 
grass, which is kept constantly watered and rolled, with the result that they 
are springy and elusive. 

The tees are also grass sown, as are the fair greens. 




View of the Kaiich House at Riincho Del Monte. 



The whole field is studded with beautiful live oak trees which form 
natural hazards. It is bounded by ravines and cut by water channels and 
clumps of brush, which add zest to game. In addition to the rolling contour 
of the ground there have been added various artificial bunkers and hazards, 
giving a decided individuality to each hole. Diagrams of both the 18-hole 
and 9-hole courses are given on other pages. 

It is the ideal place for those who come to California for the winter 
because they can golf on this excellent course every day and find ample 
variety of other sports as well. 



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Tennis and Other Outdoor Sports at Del Monte 

The Ionic cHmate of Del Monte invites one tcj Hve much out of doors 
in active enjoyment. Horses can be secured at the hotel for pleasant rides 
about the hills. 

There are six splendid tennis courts at Del Monte. These are made oi 
bitumen and kept in perfect condition. Two of them, shown in the engrav- 
ings, are known as the "professional" courts. They are close to the hotel 
and are laid out with strict regard for sun and wind, light and shade. 
Bounded on one side by the cool and sparkling waters of Laguna Del Rev 
and on the other side by terraced lawns with a shady background and 




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At Rancho Del Monte there are small rottages. where guests can be made con^fortable. 



majestic pines and ivy-covered cypresses — they are the scene of the annual 
championship tournaments of the Pacific States Lawn Tennis Association, 
which are held each September. 

The best men and women players of the coast meet at these games and 
settle the championship questions. Oftentimes the honors are contested for 
by Eastern players who come out to match their skill against the residents 
of the coast. 

Miss May Sutton, the champion woman player of the world, has won 
many of her games against the best of both East and West here. Del Monte 
as a center of interest in the tennis world holds as high a place as it does 



in the golfing circles. 



The bowling green, where bowls are played on the grass in the old style, 
is a novel diversion. 



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Clock golf course provides a practice putting game, not so tiring as on 
the regular field. 

Croquet and quoits are also provicled, with man}- other facilities for sport. 

The Del Monte Bathhouse is a commodious and attractive building, not 
a great distance from the hotel. It is well lighted, well ventilated, and 
decorated with baskets of tropical flowers and growing plants hanging from 
the roof. The tank is lined with white tile and has a complete equipment 
of springboards, slides, etc. It is filled with warm salt water which is con- 
tinuously changed. From the bathhouse entrance is given to the pleasure 
pier and the long, smooth stretch of sandy beach. The surf comes rolling 




Scene at Ranclio Del Monte in the Carmel Valley. 



in here with just the right violence, and an entire absence of undertow 
makes the surf bathing particularly delightful. The wide expanse of beach 
invites to sun baths between dips in the waves. Competent instructors are 
In attendance and provide everv facility for the experienced as well as the 
inexperienced swimmer. 

The annual dog shows are held at Hotel Del Monte under the auspices 
of the Ladies' Kennel Association of California. 

These always bring out a large exhibition of high-bred canines irom all 
over the State. 

The judging is done in the open under the trees of Del Monte lawn, 
the dogs being staked out about the ring instead of being held in cages, as 



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253 



is usual. These events are very popular and much social gaiety takes 
place at the time they are being held. 

Among the many outdoor attractions of Del Monte, none has a greater 
fascination than the deep-sea fishing. The Bay of Monterev is one of the 
most beautiful in the world. It is also one of the most prolific in all forms 
of marine life. It is said ])y no less competent an authority than David 
Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, that more forms of marine 
animal life are to be found here than in an}' similar body of water in 
the world. A\'hile barracuda, sea bass, rock cod, yellow tail, sea trout, 
pompano, smelt, sand dabs, sole, flounder, and tuna are caught in varving 




On the New Sceni*- Boulevards, showing niassi\-e concrete bridgewurk. 



([uantities according to the season, the chief delight of the sportsman is the 
gamey "King salmon." These are usually caught by trolling with a heav}- 
sinker. 

The Del Monte Rancho is eighteen miles from Del Monte, up the Carmel 
\'alley. Here are produced the butter, eggs, milk, cream and \egetables 
used at the hotel. .At the Rancho are a number of comfortable cottages, 
which are used bv the guests of the hotel while on hunting and fishing trips. 

The Carmel river, during the season, affords excellent trout fishing. In 
the valley of Carmel quail, doves, rabbits, ducks, snipe, ibis and curlew can 
be found. The mountain fastnesses thereabouts abound in deer and larger 
game. The ride to the Rancho makes a splendid motor trip. 



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255 



The World-Famed Seventeen-Mile Drive 

In addition to the pleasure of golf and tennis, Del Alonte affords a 
wonderful opportunity for the motorist. It is the beginning and end of a 
system of the most magnificent scenic boulevards in the world. 

The Monterey Peninsula is of an irregular shape. It is bounded on the 
north by the Baj^ of Monterey, on the west by the Pacific ocean, and on 
the south by Pescadero Bay. It contains some 7,000 acres of rolling wooded 
land. Its shore line is very diversified and broken, sandy beaches alternating 
with rugged rocky headlands. 




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Thousand-year-old C'.vijres.s Trees on the 17-mile Drive. 



One of the most notable drives or tours known to man is that which 
takes one around this Monterey Peninsula. It extends over carefully-kept 
roads for seventeen miles — a constant delight and wonderment. By taking 
this drive a very excellent idea of Del Monte and the vicinity is gained. 

Not far from the hotel is the old Mission San Carlos de Borromeo, 
established June 3, 1770, by Father Junipera Serra. Here the authorities in 
charge will show the visitor some of the ancient vestments of the padres, 
including rich gold-embroidered silk and satin robes which were once worn 
bv the sainted Junipera Serra, founder of the California missions. To attend 
the service in this old mission church is a matter of especial interest, and 
the stranger mav also be attracted to the ancient cemetery close at hand, 



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where rest the remains of many of the early settlers who made historv here 
when this conntry was a province of early Spain. 

\\'ithin the mission yard may be seen all that remains of the famous 
Junipera Oak. under which the venerable Father Serra celebrated the first 
Mass when he landed in Alontere}' in 1770. It was cut down in I'-Oji and 
has been preserved here. 

Old Town of Monterey 

The old town of Monttrey is a constant delight and it should be seen 
bv all tourists. History has been making here ever since the early part of 
the fifteenth century. The place was named, it is well to remember, by 
\'i7.caino, in 1602, after the Count of Monterey, ninth viceroy of Mexico, 
whose portrait hangs in the lobby of the hotel. It was good Padre Serra 
who established an outpost of the faith here. Along with his party came 
the soldiers, and the equipment of the Presidio of Monterey followed. Here 
one may see the point where Father Serra landed. The other points of 
special mtcrcst include the old customs house, San Carlos Mission, the old 
home where Robert Louis Stevenson once lived, Colton Hall, where the 
first constitution of California was adopted; Washington Hotel, once used 
as headquarters by General Xe^■e and the Spanish troops, and a dozen other 
places of equal and absorbing interest. Here one may also see bits of old 
harpoon and other reminiscences of the whaling industry, told about and 
celebrated hx Richard Henrv Dana in his liook, "Two Years Before the 
Mast"; the first theater in California, where Jenny Lind sang in the early 
'60's ; the first Irmber house, the first brick house in California, and many 
other ])oints of great hist(iric value. 

Presidio of Monterey 

A visit to the Presidio of Alontere}- is well worth while. This is now one 
of the most important military posts in the United States, growing from an 
obscure reservation to a 10-com])any p.ost in consequence of the war with 
Spain and the acquisition of the I'hilippines. Here the soldiers come for 
rest and recuperation prior to a voyage across the Pacific and after their 
return from arduous campaigns in the Philippines. This Presidio was once 
conlrnlled bv the Spaniards, and later, in 1822, by the Mexican government. 
The monument erected in honor of Father Junipera Serra by Mrs. Leland 
Stanford, shown elsewhere in this Ijook, is located in a commanding position. 
Here also is the Sloat monument, which has been built by gifts of blocks 
of stone from each county in California, to commemorate the landing here 
of Commodore Sloat. July 7. 1846. The cross near the entrance which marks 
the landing place of Father Serra was erected by Mr. James Murray of 
Monterey. At guardmount or at the other military exercises of the day, the 
troops assemble and form an interesting spectacle. 



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TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 



259 



Picturesque Pacific Grove 

Pacific Grove is situated on the Monterey Peninsula. It lies in the midst 
of a pine forest, facing the liay of Monterey — a great indentation in the 
coast — 70 miles in extent. The bay is famous as one of the most beautiful 
bodies of water on the Pacific. It afifords a safe and con\-enient anchorage 
for vessels of every size, at all times. 




Pebble Beac-h Lodge. A iiiiiriue place of resort in the Pine Forest on the IT-mile Drive. 



It is on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad — 128 miles from 
San Francisco — 350 miles from Los .\ngeles. There is direct parlor car 
and express train service dail}' from both north and south. It takes less 
than four hours' time from the city to Pacific Grove. The roads from various 
parts of the State are excellent, and the average time by automobile troni 
San Francisco is about eight hours. From the great interior valleys of the 
San Joaquin and Sacramento, fast train service is maintained, and low 
summer rates are quoted by the railroad. The resident of these iiUerior 
localities can therefore reach the cool breezes and bracing air of Pacific 
Grove within a few hours, enjoying on their journey the ride through a 
country offering a constantly-changing picture of valley and mountain, forest 
and meadow, orchard and ranch life. To them Pacific (irove jjrovides a 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 



complete change of air and scenery, and is therefore a most pleasant place 
for vacations. The charm of the mountains, the beauty of the pine forest 
unite with the pleasures of the sea, and one can indulge his fancy for recrea- 
tion of every sort without great trouble or expense. 

Possessing as it does the finest all-the-year-round climate in the State, 
free from the chill of the interior, nestling in the pines and facing one of the 
most beautiful bays in the world. Pacific Grove is an ideal place to live. 

Pacific Grove takes its name from the forest of virgin pines and oaks 
in which it is located, while about it on every side is the sea. This ocean 
environment accounts for the phenomenal climate — mild without variation. 



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Pacific Grove Hotel is a comfortable and liomelike liotel under tlie same management 

as Hotel Del Monte. 



and yet tonic with the salt of the sea and the balsam of the pines, which 
saves it from the languid element which commonly marks even climates. 

Not enough rain falls in the winter to interfere with out-door life. Frost 
is rarelv seen. \'erdure appears with the first rains. There is a carpet of 
green al! the winter, and wild flowers spring in profusion. Pacific Grove is 
the natural home of all varieties of cultivated flowers and plants, especially 
the more delicate varieties — nasturtiums, fuchsias, heliotrope and callas, 
which flourish and bloom best in the winter. The summer is very pleasant 
and the Grove is the place to come for cool refreshing sea air, and exemption 
from heat and dust. For those who live in the interior of CaHfornia, or 



TO CALIFDRXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 2fil 

Eastern people seeking sucli advantages, the winter is really the most 
pleasant portion of the year. The atmosphere is so clear, the air so l)alm}-. 
the scenery so charming, that to live out-of-doors is a luxury. 

Pacific Grove Hotel 

The Pacific Grove Hotel is the leading hostelry of this town and sits in 
its own private park of trees and flowers in the civic center of the place. The 
situation of the Hotel is ideal, being close to the bathing beach and wharf, 
for the glass bottom boats, the numerous attractions of Monterey. Pacific 
Grove and the \icinity. The street cars pass its doors, connect with Del 
Monte and the Peninsula. Pacific Grove Hotel has nearly two hundred 
rooms, is equipped with all modern conveniences and is a very popular family 
hotel. A thorough overhauling of the entire building has just been made 
ar.d at this time it stands first among the hotels of its class in California. 
It has an added advantage over all others, because it is under the same 
management as Hotel Del Alonte, and its guests are accorded all the privi- 
leges of the beautiful Del Monte golf links, bathhouse, tennis courts and 
grounds. 

A DeUghtful Place of Resort 

Pacific Grove presents all the attractions of the usual seaside resort to 
better advantage than any other. The Del Monte golf links green all-year- 
round are close by, and are open to guests of the Pacific Grove Hotel the 
same as to the guests of Hotel Del Monte. The bathing beach and pavilion 
invite to surf bathing, warm plunge or hot sea water tub-baths. Promenade 
band concerts are a feature during the summer season. The wonderful 
submarine gardens at Pacific Grove are among the finest in the world, ami 
arrangements for viewing them through the glass bottom boats are l)oth 
safe and convenient. 

Public Museum 

The public museum, free to all, offers special attractions to those inter- 
ested in the remarkable life of the bay and peninsula. It contains about 
12,000 specimens, including one of the finest collections of mounted marine 
animals on the Pacific Coast, also local ami foreign birds and birds' eggs, 
marine and land plants, and a reference library of scientific works. 

Chautauqua 

Pacific Grove is often callt-d ■'Chautaui|ua-b3--the-Sea," because here is 
held each summer the Chautauqua Assembly of X'orthern California, and 
thousands of people enjov the lectures of distinguished scholars and scientists, 
while the summer schools of various useful and ornamental arts (such as 
school of cooking, school of music, school of painting, etc.) are conducted 
at the lowest rates by prominent instructors. 

The unique aquatic Lantern l-'estival, which takes plz.ce in July with its 
myriads of colored lights on the waters, and the pyrotechnic display, is a 
fasciratintr feature. 



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The marine biological laboratory of the Leland Stanford. Jr., University 
conducts regular courses of instruction in Zoology, ISotany and Physiology 
during the summer. 

The Farmers" Institute convenes in August. 

The California Annua! Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
meets in September; as well as the Itinerants' Club of the California Annual 
Conference. 

The students' winter school of the Young Men's Christian Association 
begins in December. 

A Comfortable Place to Dwell 

Pacific Grove offers all the attractions of forest, mountain and seaside 
resorts, together with the civic advantages of a long established munici- 




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pality. One may enjoy surf or tank liathing, yachting, fishing, mountain 
climbing, riding, motoring, golf or tennis, within a few minutes' walk of 
their own home. It has good stores, streets, gas and electric lights, a fine 
sanitary sewer system and an abundance of ])ure, clear, soft water, pro- 
nounced by experts to be the purest in the State, l-'rost and snow and the 
chill penetrating fogs of the interior valleys are unknown here. The climate 
is always exhilarating and l^racing rather than warm and enervating — a 
fine virile atmosphere that makes for life and health. This is evident from 
the following table. 



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Pacific Grove has nian>- incturestiue and beautiful li mies nestling in the trees. 

superior commercial advantages, it is a steadily growing, thriving town. 
Pacific Grove has an unsurjjassed natural surrounding, and a community of 
socially inclined and cultured people. Here is held the annual meeting 
of the Chautauqua Assembly of Northern California, bringing hundreds of 
refined men and women from all over the State. Pacific Grove is a city of 
churches; nearly every deiKimination being re])resented with its substantial 
house of wor.ship. It has no saloons, and can have none, as prohibitory con- 
ditions are made perpetual in every deed to real estate. It has fine schools, 
primary, grammar and high grades. Every condition needful for a prosperous, 
progressive place is to be found here. It has both rail and water transjiorta- 
tion. It is the shipping point of the Associated Oil Co., which has established 



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an immense depot here. The oil is delivered through a large pipe line from 
Coalinga, and delivers fuel oil at less cost than in San Francisco. Oil vessels 
arrive and depart daily for all ])arts of the world. The harbor is commodious 
and quiet, thus offering a safe anchorage for any vessel. Pacific Grove prop- 
erty is constantlv advancing in value — lots in the Third and Fourth Additions 
being all sold, and those in the Fifth and Sixth Additions being nearly all sold. 
The lots are large size, and all the improvements are now in. Prices are very 
'ow, and the chance for profit absolutely certain. 

On the 17-Mile Drive 

Leaving picturesque Pacific Grove, one proceeds along the Seventeen- 
mile Drive. Just outside town this enters a dense pine forest; winding and 
lurning through this it reaches the shore at Moss Beach, whence it follows 
the ocean around the peninsula to Pebble Beach. The points of interest 
follow each other in (juick succession — Point Joe, Restless Sea, Bird Rocks, 
Seal Rocks, with their colony of seals ; Fan Shell Beach, the Ostrich Tree, 
Cypress Point, the Cypress groves, Midway Point. 

Along the tortuous course of the dri\e, encircling the edge of the 
peninsula, one passes many interesting sights. The quaint huts of the 
Chinese fishermen cling to rocks, bits of spars, masts and wreckage of ships 
that have met their doom on the rocky coast are scattered about. At 
"Restless Sea," the peculiar meeting place of the tides, the spectacle of 
seething surf and immense waves breaking far ofl: the land is inspiring. 
The Ostrich Tree, a great cypress so formed as to closely resemble a giant 
ostrich, stands out boldly against the skyline just beyond Fan Shell Beach. 

The drive winds on through ancient cypress groves whose origin is lost 
in the mist of history. Trees of this curious species, it is said, grow iinl\' 
in Japan, and the supposition is that ages ago the ocean currents washed 
the seeds ashore for growth and development at this far-away point. (Jthers 
claim that they are identical with the cedars of Lebanon, but are unable to 
explain how thev got here. The cypresses here are the delight of painters, 
who come from the ends of the world to put them upon canvases. 

Pebble Beach, on the 17-Mile Drive, Monterey County 

At Pebble Beach which is midwa_\' on the world famous 17-mile l)ri\c 
the Pacific Improvement Company have laid out an ideal residence park. At 
this point the sea has made a great indentation in the shore which is knuwn 
as Pescadero Bay. The dark forbidding point of land which juts nut into 
the sea on the extreme south is called Point Lobos, a "point of wolves." I kre 
in this sheltered valley facing the Southern sun, many acres have been laid 
off in charming homesites. The magnificent new scenic boulevards which 
cross the Peninsula radiate from this spot affording one ample choice of 
roadway to either Pacific Grove, Monterey or Del Monte. These roads are 
fortv feet wide, are hard and smooth as a billiard table and wind through the 
forests and up o\-er the hills at a grade not exceeding three per cent. .\11 in 



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One of the great Stone Fireplaces in tlie Assemhiy Hall of Pebble Beacli Lodge. 




Pebble Beach Lodge is ii popular place of rendezvous for automobilists and equestrians 



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all this is unquestionably the finest system of motor boulevards in America 
if not in the whole world. 

The roads are brought into Pebble Beach in such a manner that they form 
the streets of the new colony without changing their character. Pebble Beach 
is divided into acreage tracts and villa sites. Each homesite is so situated as 
to command a wonderful view of forest, mountain or sea, and in many cases 
a superb combination of them all. The 17-mile Drive which skirts the shore 
forms the main thoroughfare and the lots facing on it are of rare lieauty of 
situation. The whole of Pebble Beach Tract is covered with great pines and 
oaks. Each lot having a number of these splendid trees on it. The climate 




Great Hall of Pelilile Bfach Ludge. llunteiey CuluU^■. 



at Pebble Beach is one of continuous summer. It faces the Southern sun and 
is amply protected on north, east and west by the forest-covered hills which 
encircle it. These forests come down in many cases clear to the water's edge. 
Already there are a number of charming homes being built among the trees, 
but another year will see this place as thickly settled as can be desired. 

The owners, realizing the importance of the transportation problem, have 
installed a line of electric automobiles capable of carrying twenty passengers 
which run from Pacific Grove to Pebble Beach Lodge. This Lodge is the 
center of activity at Pebble Beach. 



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Pebble Beach Lodge a Unique Log Building 

It stands on a knoll oveFlto.okiiig the Bay and the sea. In front of it is a 
wide terrace and springly lawns and flower gardens, which extend down to 
the beach. The Lodge itself is a great log structure built of huge timbers cut 
from the surrounding forests. Its main assfembly hall is some thirty-five feet 
wide Ijv twice as long and has an immense stone fireplace at either end. 
These fire places are built of granite rock and contain 160 tons of material. 
They extend from the floor to the gable of the roof, and are so arranged as to 
have a fire place on both sides. Thus the great hall has a fire place at either 
end while the adjoining rooms also have fire places using the same chimney. 
The hall is furnished with massive oak furniture and is a favorite place of 
rendezvous for automobile parties. At one end adjoining this hall is the 
bufifet and grill, flanked by the kitchen in a wing by itself. The cuisine and 
service are under the same management as Hotel Del Monte antl make a 
specialty of fish, game and sea foods. 

The Lodge was designed as a nucleus for the resident colonv which is 
springing up here. Purchasers of property can build on their premises and 
feel safe from all servant problems and the attendant owners as the Lodge is 
open at all hours and provides meals for all. 

It has become a favorite place of resort for Del Alonte guests who find it 
a lovely place in which to spend all or part of the day in the open. The 
property at Pebble Beach is being sold at very low prices and e.xtrtmely 
reasonable terms. It requires no prophet to forsee an ultimate development 
of this section within the next few years which will outclass any other resi- 
dence part of California. 

Carmel Mission 

Carmel Mission, properly known as Mission San Carlos Borromeo. 
located on the Rio Carmelo, is seven miles away, but is reached, as all 
points around Del Monte, by most excellent roads. It is on the road to 
Point Lobos. This is one of the most characteristic of the California 
missions, since, from the time of its founding, it remained the head(:|uarters 
and home of Padre Junipera Serra. the head of the Franciscan Missions of 
Alta California. This mission was founded July 10, 1771. The padres and 
their Indian neophytes moved from the ^lission San Carlos at Monterey 
because of the desire of the priests to remove their charges from the foreign 
influences to which they were likely to be subjected in a seaport and military 
post. Here rest the remains of Padre Serra, who died in 1784. The care- 
taker close by will show the sightseer every attention. 

The sea is close at hand, and the fertile Carmel \'alley stretches away 
in full view from the historic old ])ile. Once the Indian disciples of the 
padres here numbered several hundred, and the mission was the centering 
point for all travelers. 



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Top: Under the Big Trees, at the foot of the '■Umnt" looking lieavenvvanl more than 300 feet. 
Lower: A Chicago-Kansas City-Los Angeles H. M. Jl. B. A. crowd being "tool<" at the Big 

Trees by Max Teich. 

Big Tree Grove 

After luncheon at Del ■\Ionte the trains were speedily whirled by \vay 
jf-Santa Cruz to the Big Trees. Henry J. liohn wrote of this trip: 

'■\\'e arrive there at 3:30, while the sun is 3-et high in the sky, gi\ino- 
our kodak friends a chance to get in their work in the sunny spots at the 
foot of the giant trees. The latest estimate or conclusion reached by forestry 
experts is that the largest of these trees are some six thousand years old. 
Did you ever sl(i|) to think that these are the oldest living things in the 
world? — nowhere else in the world is anything so ancient. Tourists come 
from all parts of the world to see them, and yet, strange to say, in our party 
are people, some who have lived in California for many years, others born 
ill the State, who have never looked upon these wonderful giants until this 
minute. Our stay is short, and we go across the little mountain and again 
strike our train, at a point farther along the route. 

It has been decided to cut out San Jose, which some of us regret just a 
bit, for we remember our visit in 18% and the great prune orchards through 
which we were driven at that time." 



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TO CALIFORXIA AXl) THE l'ACH<"IC COAST 271 

San Jose, Hotel Vendome and the Lick Observatory 

W'liile the trains did not stn|) at San Jose to give our guests the oppor- 
tunity to \-isit the Hotel \'endonie, all those who were present fourteen years 
ago recalled the hospitality of dear (;. P. Snell, then its manager, and longed 
to see the beautiful Santa Clara \'alley once again. Three or four, who had 
seen San Francisco recently, cut out some of the doings there and returned 
to San Jose. The_\- were delightfully entertained by Mr. H. ^^'ingate Lake, 
the manager of the new \'endome, who made himself as dear to the hearts 
of the new travelers as his predecessor had done to those of years ago. 

This beautiful hotel, entirely reconstructed in 1907, is set in its own 
park, where green lawns enli\-ened by brilliant flower beds, ever blooming, 
and traversed by enticing pathways, are shaded by lofty and umbrageous 
trees. The grounds and the fine building combine all the charm and 
seclusion of a country estate. In appointments and service the hotel is 
unexcelled, unsurpassed. It is in the heart of the city, but a few blocks 
from the principal railroad station whence trains depart every few minutes, 
while from its gates the famous resorts of the Santa Clara Valley can be 
reached in less than an hour's ride. These include the famous Congress 
Springs, with their mineral waters, mountain springs and charming forest 
in the canon of the Santa Cruz Mountains! Alum Rock Springs, with its 
wooded stream, its sixteen kinds of mineral waters and natural park in the 
mountains east of San Jose, of the delights of which the communitv is 
justly proud; Nippon Mura, the Japanese resort, and the general sweep of 
the valley with its 125 square miles of fruit trees, wonderful in the spring, 
when the blossoms seem to cover the trees like foam, and wonderful in the 
fall and summer when golden apricots, blushing jjeaches, scarlet cherries 
antl purple plums make of it an Aladdin's forest of enchantment — the largest 
and most ]iroductive stretch of orchard in the world. 

Twenty-six miles away is the famous Lick Observatory on the top of 
Mount Hamilton, reached by a mountain road of wonderful construction that 
in its hundreds of windings reveals a most romantic panorama of mountains, 
canons, valleys and, far away, the gleaming waters of the San h^rancisco Hay. 

This observatory was founiled by James Lick, the eccentric niillicinaire, 
who left a million and a cpiarter for its endowment, and then turned it over 
to the L^niversity of California. It is one of the best equipped in the world 
and contains several most ])owerful telescopes. Though an automobile 
conveys mail and passengers, the old-fashioned stage coach ride is by far the 
most enjovable. Mr. Fred Ross, manager of the Hotel Vendome Stables 
and the Mount Hamilton Stage Company, arranges these trips for visitors, 
and it is one of the most interesting and enjoyalile of all the mountain 
drives in California. I have made it several times and each time with 
increasing pleasure. 



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The Yosemite National Park 

Another trip that many nKnilxrs of the H. M. Al. I!. A. would have 
enjoyed making was a visit to the Yost mite \'alle_\- and the Big 'Srees. 
This trip is one of the most delightful in California. The rail and stage 
ride through the scenic Merced canyon — the grand and Ijeautiful ^'osemite 
Valley with its towering walls and stupendous waterfalls — the romantic 
stage trip across the mountains to delightful W'awona and the wonderful 
Big Trees groves; these are featurts that go to make up the grandest trip 
in the world. 

It is a picturesque trij) from Merced to the park line in luxuriously 
finished coaches and observation cars. Eighty miles of ever-changing 
mountain scenery, the beautiful Merced river within a stone's throw of the 
car window the entire distance. A splendid line of stages carry the traveler 
through the park, being a three-hour drive from the railroad terminus to the 
hotels and camps. This wagon road is now sprinkled daily during the dry 
months, which completely lays the dust and keeps the roadbed in smooth 
condition, and is a source of great satisfaction to the thousands of tourists 
who visit the valley each year. This is one of the features of the trip to 
Yosemite, for the road continues up the wild and rocky canon to the 
entrance of the valley, where the traveler gets his first grand view of 
Yosemite, and ere he reaches his stopping ])lace on the floor of the valley 
has passed many of the great points of interest, El Capitan, Bridal Veil 
Falls, the Three Graces, Three Brothers, Eagle Peak. Sentinel Rock, 
Yosemite Falls, and has received his first impressions of this masterpiece of 
Nature. 

Trails and carriage drives radiate from the Yosemite village to points of 
interest, which vary in distance from three-cpiarters of a mile to fifteen miles, 
and even farther. Many are nice walking distances and others are best 
taken by sadille horse or carriage, according to the inclination of the 
traveler. 

The Yosemite \'alley is accessible the year around, winter and summer, 
and visitors need not wait for a particular season to view its grandeurs. 
It is a delightful trip tluring the winter months: the floor of the valley is 
protected by its great walls, there is no deep snow and the winter climate is 
mild and invigorating. The winter months are November, December and 
Januarv. The autumn months, September and October, are charming and 
romantic, the spell of Indian summer holding sway, while the autumn hues 
of tree and mountain are most gorgeous. The spring and summer months 
are the times when the large numbers of visitors throng the valley, but 
people are going in and out all the seasons and are beginning to find that 
it is a trip worth while any time of the year. 



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CHAPTER XIII 

SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS MAJESTIC HOTELS 

San Francisco was reached on Monday evening, April 18th, in time for 
dinner, and owing to the perfect arrangements made by the committee, 
headed 1)V .Mr. Cooke the guests were taken by autos, tally-hos and buses 
to their hotels as fast as they could enter them. The Xew York delegation 
went to the St. Francis, to be cared for l)y their much-loved and former 
citizen, "limmie" ^^'oods, the Yankees to the palatial Fairmont on the 
sunnnit of the hill, and the Chicago Mid-\Vesters to the Palace. So, in effect, 
wrote Henrv J. liohn. He continued: "Of course, there are some scattering 
delegates who distribute themselves among the other hotels. And as we 
reach our rooms and gaze from the windows out over the beautiful city, 
and as we go to the dining-rooms and take our first dinner in San Francisco, 
we feel somewhat in a dream, for little can we realize that this is the city 
which but four years ago had a sort of an ague shake and then was smashed 
to smithereens by a tire. We see no traces here of disaster — all is gold and 
glitter and marble and color, architecture, artifice and art. After dinner we 
stroll about in the heart of the city, drop in at the St. Francis and other 
hotels, and altogether are 'just as ha]ipy as we can be' after this most 
delightful day." 

The Palace Hotel 

It was hard to realize that the old Palace was gone, but all acknowledged 
tliat the new Palace was a great advance upon the older and world-famed 
building. 

Since its first inception the Palace has Ijeen unicfue in the h()tel world 
and in its new home the same uniqiic features which made the old house 
famous in two hemispheres have been reproduced and many new ones 
exclusively its own have been intr( Mliiced. 

Palace One of the Largest Hotels in the World 

The Palace occupies an entire citv bhick in the heart of San b'rancisco's 
commercial and financial centers. Its Market Street frontage is 27? feet, 
while it extends over 350 feet along Xew Montgomery and Annie streets. 
This gives it an area of some ninety-five thousand square feet, or a little 
more than two and one-half acres. On the ground floor the wdiole of this 
enormous space is devoted to the ofifices, dining-rooms, ball and bantpiet 
rooms, the Great Court (itself without counterpart) and the numerous 
kitchens. 

The upper tioors, of which there are eight, occupy the same space, save 
that the various courts serve as light and air shafts, thus making every one 
of the 700 rooms an outside room. 



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TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 277 

The Palace building is of cream Milwaukee lirick faced on the two lower 
floors and trimmed on all floors with white granite. The brick work sur- 
rounds a giant steel frame of the heaviest girders and btams used in anv 
construction on the Coast an.l designed, when the necessity arises, to carry 
four additional floors with perfect safety. Every element used in its coii- 
•^truction is as fireproof as human ingenuity can devi.;'e. put together with the 
idea of withstanding, without damage, any action of fire or the elements. 
The same general plans as laid down in the first house have been followed, 
except where a change would work a marked improvement. 

Great Central Court Still Is the Motif 

Generally speaking, the i)lan of the Palace consists of a great Central 
Court or lounge around which the rest of the house is built. I'his court is 
130 ftet long by nearly 100 feet wide and from its marble floor to the arching 
d.ome is 100 feet in the clear. ( )u the north and south sides of the court are 
wide corridors, separating it from the men's grill room and the main restau- 
rant respectively. On the east another wide corridor extends full length 
from Market and Jesse Streets opening into the court on the west, .\long 
this are found the public conveniences: telejihones, telegraph offices, news- 
|)aper booth, parcel room, ladies' waiting roenn, etc. The court is flaniced 
by a double row of massive Italian marble columns. It is furnished with 
lieavy and comfortable chairs, divans and lounges, and the marble floor is 
covered with thick rtigs. 

The Inner Court — Palace Hotel 

There never was a fair\land imagined or pictured by writer e)r artist that 
e(|ualcd the reality that one may enjoy every evening after dinner in the 
Palace Hotel Court. With its arched over-glass roof, its su]3ports picked out 
in didl gold, and terminated on the wall entalilature with marble shields, its 
color is rich though subdued. Marble columns, curved mural faces, elazzling 
Venetian chandeliers, blazing with electric candles and globes, red silk 
sliaded reading lamps, jialms, chairs upholstered in red velvet, and dull gold, 
e)r leather and dull gold, solid oak and mahogany settees richly upholstered, 
writing tables, green and blue-bordered red velvet carpets, exquisitely 
shaded marble arches leading on each side into gentlemen's and ladies' 
dining-rooms, it is a veritable fairyland, and when the orchestra — one of the 
finest in the \A'est — discourses sweet music, oft'ering charming strains to suit 
every taste, from the purest classics of Wagner, Schubert, Chopin, 
Schumann, Mozart, Peethoven, and even Bach, to the simplest and most 
plaintixe airs, with harp, organ and other unusual accompaniments, there is 
no we)nder that guests from afar, and citizens of San Francisco ecpially 
llock to the attracti\e place and enjoy the rich feast that onlv such a hotel 
as the Palace could jiossibly provide for them. Many a professional concert 
'.our is made with far less effective and soul-stirring music than that daily 
presented liv the Palace orchestra. 



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Palace Hotel, entirely rebuilt since the fire, on the original Market Street site. A 
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The Men's Grill of Great Size 



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On the nortli of the court lies the men's ,<;Till and still farther nortji the 
har is situated, ]ia\ing its own entrance to Market Street. The liar is pan- 
eled in solid oak and lighted by a heavy leaded glass skylight. Itehind the 
bar is a magnificent $10,000 jjicture entitled, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." 




Tlif :.len's Crill Mf the Pa 



Ildli-I wliere llie liii.^iness men of tlie rity (■i>iisi'es;itt> ilaily 
al the liiiit-li hour. 



Maxfield Parrish's Picture in Palace Hotel Buffet 

The picture is one oi Ma.xfield Parrish's masterpieces. It is the one 
touch of striking color in a room singidarly plain, though rich and elegant 
in appointment. Framed in simple didl gold, it is a most effective picture. 
To the right are the rugged, craggy mountain peaks, set ofif on the left by a 
gnarled rugged old monarch of a tree. lietween the two in the far distance 
is a glimpse of the valley, over which silvery clouds play. 

But the whole interest of the ])ictnre centers in the main figure and its 
followers— the Pied Piper and the happy band of children that precede ami 
follow him. The piper himself is apparently engrossed in his piping,— playing 
on an old-fashioned pipe, after the style of a modern oboe. He wears a 
peaked red hat, and clad in a dangling cloak that is pied or plaid enough to 
please a Highlandman, he is striding forward, earnestly intent on his work. 
Before him, alongside of him, behind him, cluster the boys and girls who are 
enchanted with his piping, and even though one had never read Browning's 
spirited poem would feel what he so graphically expresses: 



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Lnuking into the great Sun Court of the Palace Hutel from the office. 




Massive Spanish Leather Lounges invite you in tlie Palace Hotel Bar. 



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( )nce mure he stept into the street, 

And to his lips again 
Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane; 

And ere he blew three notes I such sweet 
Soft notes as yet musician's cunning 

Xever ga\e the enraptured air) 
There was a rustling' that seemed like a bustling 
( )f merry cr(.)\vds justling at pitching an<l hustling; 
Small feet jjattering. wooden shoes clattering. 
Little hantls clapping and little tongues chattering. 
And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, 
Out came the children running. 
All the little boys and girls, 
With rosy checks and flaxen curls. 
And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls. 
Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after 
This wonderful music with shouting and laughter. 

Note, also, how the artist has caught the very spirit of the poet's 
escription of the piper: 

"The strangest figure ! 
His queer long coat from heel to head 
\\'as half of yellow and half of red, 
.-\.nd he himself was tall and thin, 
\\'ith sharp blue eyes, each like a pin. 
And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, 
Xo tuft on cheek nor beard on chin. 
But lips with smiles went ijut and in; 
There was no guessing his kith and kin : 
And nobodv could enough admire 
The tall man and his quaint attire. 
Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire. 
Starting up at the Trump of doom's tone. 
Had walkeil this wa\- from his painted tombstone!'" 

Though the road is rough, rugged and difficult, the children cheerfully 
star bv the piper, and those ahead look eagerly back to watch his face. 
while those in the rear follow with happy, earnest, zealous trust expressed 
in their faces. Each child's face is a study, and had Mr. I'arrish never 
painted any other child picture this would at once have placed him upon a 
high pedestal as an artist of childhood. 

The picture is worthy a better place, for with all due deference to the 
men who regard it no harm to "take a drink when they feel like it." a 
barroom, however well conducted, is not the place into which to bring boys 
and girls, ancl I would personally be g'ail to have thi< ]>icture placed where 



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Colonel John C. Kirkpatrick, Managing Uirector Palace Hotel Company. 

—Engraving by courte3y of Hotel Monthly. 



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I could take every boy and girl friend I have so that they might see and 
enjoy it, as they assuredly would. 

The men's grill — of a name and fame to conjure with — is a great room, 
as long as the court and almost as wide. It is floored with large red tiles 
and its ceiling springs in a wide arch of a strictly Gothic type. The grill is 
finished in dull white with candelabra of hammered copper. At the west end 
is the electric and coal grill, insuring cpiick and perfect cuisine and service. 

The Main Restaurant a Study in Dull Gold and Gray 

This room is situatctl on the south side of the court and is of great size, 
with a seating capacity of 400 guests. The room is classic in its simplicity, 




The Main Restaurant of the Palace Hotel. A study in grey and gold. 

the only attempt at ornamentation being the beaten gold capitals of the half 
pillars in the walls and on the cornices. Its quiet rcstfulness soothes and 
pleases, being strictly in keeping with the faultless service and cuisine. 

On the south of the main restaurant is the banquet room, another svm- 
phuny in gray and gold, with polished hardwood floor and small paneled 
glass doors. This is the favorite room for banquets and affairs of a size 
insufficient for use of the great Louis X\'. ballroom, which is close by. 
Another long corridor extends parallel with Jessie Street from the east 
corridor to the ballroom. The banquet room is on one side of this and on 
the Jessie Street side are the numerous checking and toilet rooms for men 



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OBADIAH RICH. 



To have served over thirty years success- 
fully with one hotel company, and to have 
risen to occupy tlie distinguislied and respon- 
sible position of assistant to the director of 
two of the noted and famous liotels of the 
world, is the proud record of Obadiali Rich. 
He was born at Truro. Mass., December S, 
1853. In February, 1879, he entered the employ 
of Messrs. Ridgeway & Johnson, then the pro- 
prietors of the Grand Hotel, San Francisco. 
In 1880. when Senator Sharon took over the 
Grand Hotel, Mr. Rich entered his employ and 



has been with the Palace Hotel Compan>' ever 
since. In 18It4 he was appointed assistant 
manager of the Palace, under Col. J. C. Kirk- 
patrick. which position of honor and respon- 
sibilit.v he has ever since tilled. In 1897 he 
was made the l5u>'er for both hotels, which 
office he held until about a >'ear ago. still 
i-etaining, under the directorship of Colonel 
Kirkpatrick, the supervision of the Grand 
Hotel, until it was destroyed bv the fire of 
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and women, reception parlors and a nnnilx-r of small rooms for private 
dinners and like attairs. 

The ballroom occupies the entire south\vest corner of the huildinj;-. it is 
a superb room, finished after Louis X\'. |)eriod, in dull tones of gold, making 
an effective background for any gown. This room is about 50x100 feet in 
size and is finished with a hardwood ]iarqnetry floor, which is es])ecially 
ilelightful for dancing. The ballroom has its own private carriage and auto- 
niobile entrance on Jessie Street, as has the Ijanquet room at the end uf the 
cast corridor, lly this means t«d functions mav he held, at the same time, 
one in the ballroom and the other in the banquet room, without interference 
with each otlier in anv \\:iv. 




\'iew of the great -Sun Oourt of tlie Pa'ace Hotel. One of tlie nio:<t i\-niai'kalile pieces nf 
hotel arcliitecture in the world. 



The Palace Kitchen 

I'.ut to hotelmen the chief interest centers in the kitclien and its arrange- 
ments for service. 

To arrange the kitchen of so large a hotel as the Palace so that all its 
many and (.xacting patrons shall have perfect service is one of the greatest 
and most difificult problems that the architect of a modern hotel is called 
upon to solve. 

The fact is, there is not one architect in a million, who, unaided and 
alone, is competent to the task. Xo man, \\hate\er his architectural genius, 



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unless he is perfectly familiar with the tremendous and varying demands 
made upon the kitchen of such a hotel, can possibly plan satisfactorily to 
meet those demands. 

In the case of the Palace Hotel, Colonel Kirkpatrick"s practical experi- 
ence enabled him to solve the problem with comparative ease. He, better 
than any architect, knew the needs and how to meet them. First of all 
was the i^rill room and gentlemen's dining-room. Next to this came the 
world-famed court, with tables on each side, one for gentlemen only and 
the other for ladies and gentlemen, with occasional service that extends 
into the lar;;e part of the main body of the court. On the opposite side 
of the court from the grill room is the ladies' dining-room. Beyond this is 
the large banquet hall and two smaller ones, each capable of banqueting 
rrom fifty to one hundred and twenty-five guests, then the five or si.x smaller 
banquet rooms for lesser groups and family parties. In addition to this, 
there is the service to the private rooms. Hence it will be seen that the 
kitchen of the Palace must be prepared to meet the demands of two dining- 
rooms, two au.xiliary dining-rooms in the corridor of the court, another 
special room in the court itself; three large banquet rooms, five or six 
smaller ones, and the service of the private rooms. To meet these complex 
problems satisfactorily was an achievement of which any man might be 
proud, and I am free to confess, after going through the kitchens of prac- 
tically all the leading hotels in America, and many of those in Europe, I 
have seen no kitchen that will begin to compare with this of the Palace 
when its tremendous demands are considered in all their minute details. 

The kitchen takes up a large part of one side of the entire building. 
It is therefore directly in contact with the street, which insures absolute 
ventilation from freely circulating air, as well as an abundance of light. 
The range extends across the major part of the length of the kitchen. 
Nearly at one end is a small glass booth, in which the chef has his office. 
This enables him to see everything that goes on, and he can turn his 
attention in any direction he chooses without leaving his revolving chair. 

Without entering into the details as to the kitchen equi])ment, it is 
sufficient to say that in every respect it measures up to the high standard of 
the Palace Hotel. 

Let me now explain how easy it has been made to serve from this 
kitchen all these respective dining and banquet rooms without confusion 
and absolutely without any one set of diners knowing anything, practically 
speaking, of what is transpiring with another set of diners. In other words, 
at the Palace Hotel, a grand banquet may be served to five hundred people 
at any hour of the day or night, and the ordinary guests of the hotel be 
unaware that anything of the kind is going on. This is accomplished by 
the fact that the kitchen extends, as I have explained, across practically the 
whole of one end of the building, and that the bancpieting portion of the 
hotel has its own separate pri\-ate entrance upon a street of its own. 



TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 287 

One end of the gentlemen's grill room adjoins the kitchen, with its 
entrance and exit. Xext comes the gentlemen's corridor of the inner court, 
also adjoining, and having its own exit and entrance. Following this comes 
the inner court, next the ladies' corridor of the court and the ladies' dinino-- 
room, each with its own exit and entrance. 

In the kitchen, at each entrance to the main dining-rooms, are all the 
heaters necessary for the chinaware, closets for the silverware, etc. 

.At the farther end of the kitchen there is another com])lete equipment 
of heaters for china, closets for the silverware, etc., devoted entirely to 
1 anquet service. The main Ijamiuet hall has its private entrance from the 
kitchen, including a good sized anteroom for facilitating the service and 
enabling the maitre d' hotel to supervise his forces. A similar anteroom 
is provided for the lesser banquet halls, and, as there is a grand banquet 
entrance on what we might term the rear side of the hotel, carriages and 
automobiles deposit their guests and receive them here, where there are 
suitable reception rooms for ladies and gentlemen, etc., sci that several 
lianquets and a ball or two, participated in by several hundreds of people 
may all be going on at the same time on this side of the house, without, as 
I have remarked, any of the ordinary patrons or guests of the hotel being 
cognizant of it. 

I have been thus explicit in detailing the kitchen arrangements of the 
Palace Hotel, and Colonel Kirkpatrick's work in planning them. To him 
is owing the foresight, knowledge and genius which have made this appar- 
ently impossible task one of ease and simplicity. 

Here, in this realm of sunshine and cleanliness, reigns Ernest Arbogast 
over his hundred and twenty-five cooks. His glass enclosed office is placed 
in the middle of the room, from which he can actually see everything that is 
going on, speaking tubes, telephones and push bells put him in closest touch 
with every part of his department, and each cook feels the eye of the master 
upon him, and must needs strive to do the best he knows. Arbogast is a 
man of vast experience and has a reputation that is world-wide. To him has 
been given to serve banquets to five presidents of the Unite<l States — Presi- 
dents Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft all having been 
the guests of honor for whom he has prepared the menu. The bantpiets to 
Taft. Roosevelt and McKin'ey were given by the Palace Hotel Company. 

As yet I have made no reference to the private service of the Palace 
Hotel. There are several suites of rooms that are provided with every 
detail for individualistic cookery as well as service, but in the main, all 
meals for private service are prei)are(l in the kitchen. One department is set 
apart for this service. Then, instead of sending up the tables and all its 
equipment separately and having the waiter "set up" the table in the room 
where it is required, annoying the guests with this unnecessary detail, the 
whole table is set up in the kitchen and taken up complete in the private 
service elevator. 



288 THE 1910 TRII' OF THE H. M. M. 11. A. 

Victor Reiter, the maitre d" hotel, both of the Palace and Fairmoiit 
Hotels, entered the employ of the Palace Hotel nineteen years ago, coming 
to San Francisco from New York as an expert on service ; and his influence 
in dining-room service on the Pacific Coast is marked, and extends over 
the continent. In fact, there are many skilled men to-day, working in New 
York, who got their training from Mr. Reiter. He has conducted a School 
of Service, and it is months after a new waiter is on the payroll before he 
is graduated as a first-class waiter, to be entrusted with the all-around 
service of the standard the Palace and Fairmont Hotels demand. 

In a conversation held with Air. Reiter, he said: "Our waiters arc 
mostly Europeans, men who ha\e had experience as butlers, etc., especially 
those employed for the upstairs service. You may be surprised to hear it, 
but our guests are accustomed to better service than they receive in Xew 
York. We are in position to give l)etter service than in the East, for the 
reason that waiters here are ]?aid $2 a day, exclusive of their tips. It takes 
the average New York waiter who comes here some months of training 
before he fills all our requirements." 

The banquet tables are of ingenious construction. The table tops are in 
sections, and the legs all have their tops pierced with pegs extending half 
an inch or so from the leg on both sides; and these legs fit into sockets 
in the table top as a key fits into the keyhole, and the turning of the leg in 
the socket locks it in. 

At each checker's stand there is a board for keeping track of the waiters' 
names and numbers, and a diagram showing location of tables and the 
number of the waiter assigned to each particular table. The waiter's 
number, in the Palace Hotel, remains the same all the time he is employed; 
but the captain is required to change the tables, so that the waiter may not 
have the same table all the time. 

At the private waiters" stand there is a bulletin \\hich gives the bin 
numbers of the wines most called for; this is for the convenience of the 
waiters. 

The private waiter's table measures thirty-six by eighteen inches and is 
set up in units. Thus, a table for two diners would be thirty-six by thirty- 
six inches, by placing the two units together. 

Dumb waiter service is not favored in the Palace or Fairmont Hotels. 
They Ijelieve that the best service is the way they do it ; for it is more 
under the control of the maitre d' hotel and less liable to accident or delay. 

Mr. Reiter has devised a novel method of keeping track of the private 
waiters. The captain has a book ruled which shows on the left-hand page 
"time on and oil" in the first column, waiter's "name" in the second 
column, and the columns for assignments to rooms extending across the 
folio ])age; thus, I will illustrate the waiters' turn list for breakfast: For 
instance, Jacquet is entered as going on duty at 6:30 and ofif duty at 9:30. 
He served orders in rooms 8.^6, 320, 41(i aufl 3i25. \Mien a waiter is 
assigned, the room number is entered in the first vacant column opposite 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 289 

his name. When the order is served a ring is made around that number, 
and when the meal is finished and the table returned, a line is drawn across 
the room number figures, thus indicating that the service for that particular 
room is complete, and the table and tableware is returned. Another entry 
shows that Miles came to work at 6:30; that he has completed services in 
four rooms and has just been assigned to room 890, but has not yet started 
on the service elevator with his table. 

Upper Floor Arrangements Perfect 

(Jn the upper floors the rooms are arranged so that an entire series can 
be thrown en suite or in pairs as desired. Every room is an outside room 
and nearly every one of them has private bath. All are furnished in mahog- 
any with heavy brass beds of special design. 

On the second, si.xth, seventh and eighth floors in each corner of the 
building there are a number of specially arranged suites. These are the 
"state" and "royal" suites, consisting of reception salon, dining room, parlors 
and bedrooms, etc. These rooms are furnished in different woods, tapestries, 
brocades, etc., and are among the richest provided in any hotel for the 
accommodation of the guests. 

A Perfect Ventilation System 

Throughout the whole building one is impressed by the perfection of 
ventilation which has been attained. The hotel has its own electric light, 
pumping and power plant, located in the basement. Here also are the fan 
looms, both blowers and exhausts, each connected and operated by its own 
individual motor. Thermostats placed on every floor connect with these fans 
and automatically control the operation of both exhaust fans or the blowers 
•.\hich provide the fresh air. The fresh air is brought into the house through 
specially arranged channels and is filtered and washed before being sent to the 
rooms. The exhaust fans connect with every room and the entire air body is 
clianged continuously. In the great court this entire change takes place 
L\erv five minutes. In the men's grill and main restaurant every three 
minutes, in the ballroom and banquet rooms every four minutes. Such 
movement can, of course, be increased or decreased at the will of the 
engineers. Expert architects and engineers who have watchetl the operation 
of this system since its beginning are unanimous in the declaration that this 
is the one instance in which a theoretically perfect ventilation system proved 
all that was expected in practice. 

The Palace the Furthest Advance in Hotel Building 

The Palace Hotel, as it stands to-day, represents the epitome of hotel 
excellence, the furthest advance in the science of hotel building and hotel 
keeping. It is built to last for all time. 

Since the opening davs of the Palace Hotel in 1875, when, under orders 
from William Sharon, "no expense was spared to make it the best house 
in the world," it has occupied a peculiar position. Here on the western 



290 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. 1!. A. 

shore of the continent, it was the last place of American comfort which the 
outgoing traveler enjoyed. In like manner it was the first place of welcome 
for the one returning from foreign shores, holding this unique position and 
maintaining it for years by a constantly bettered service and eo'-^pment. 

The news of the burning of the Palace came like a blow to thousands 
scattered over the world, and if its loss thus alTected the guests, whose 
acquaintance -with it was formed during a short stay in the city, with how 
much greater force did it fall on residents of the city and State. Here in 
wSan Francisco, and, in fact, through the entire coast, the Palace was for 
years the center of things social, political, industrial and financial. Social 
functions, however smart, lacked the true hall mark of elegance unless the 
invitation read Palace Hotel. Here the political victories of the early days 
were planned, careers started and ended and vast industrial enterprises 
launched. Mere the men who had macle millions gathered and enjcn-ed 
themselves, as did other pleasure seekers from every land. 

The Palace the Home of Distinguished Travelers from Everywhere 

But what a multitude of great and distinguished peo]jle the Palace has 
housed during the past thirty years ! Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, 
Howard, McClellan, Schofield and Miles, I^ongstreet, Joe Johnson, Gordon, 
Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee ; Presidents Hayes, Harrison and Roosevelt ; 
Morgan, of Alabama; Frye, of Alaine; Joe Brown, of Georgia; Fenton, of 
New York, and hundreds of other Senators and Congressmen; Dana and 
Amos Cunmiings, of the Sun; Pulitzer, of the ^^'orld ; Jones, of the Times, 
and Reid, of the Tribune; Aledill, of the Chicago Tribune; Crosby Xoyes, 
of the Washington Star; James Gordon Bennett and scores of other distin- 
guished journalists; George Augustus Sala, George Alfred Townsend, 
Beecher, Talmage, Moody, Henry Irving, Booth, Barrett, Patti, Proctor, 
De Lesseps, Stevenson, James. Kipling, Hawthorne. Haggard, [Nlelba, Jere- 
miah Black, Andy Curtin, C. P, Huntington. George Gould, Harriman, Hill. 
Fish, and thousands of others altogether too numerous to mention. 

Palace Hotel Entirely Rebuilt 

With the destruction of the Palace in .\pril. 1906, the question which 
arose was not "Will the Palace be rebuilt?" but "\\'hen will the Palace be 
rebuilt?" No one doubted for a minute that the historic structure would 
again be erected on the old site, and the question of how and when was on 
every tongue. For a long time, however, the matter of rebuilding and using 
the old walls and plans was one of serious debate. There stood the \\alls. 
gutted by the fire, robbed of their ornate embellishment of bay windows, but 
still standing erect and perfect, a splendid testimonial to the work and the 
men who planned and built them. That they were absolutely safe and 
worthy of rebuilding none could doubt. Committee after committee visited 
them, engineers and architects of the highest rank inspected and sounded 
them and all pronounced them absolutely safe. But the. Palace Hotel Com- 
pany decided that they would present to their guests an entirely new building, 
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TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 291 

As a result of this decision and lortv-tive nmnths of unreniittiui;' labor, 
the Palace Hotel was reopened in its new Imme on December 13th with 
appropriate ceremony. 

The building occupies the same space as the old one, 27h feet on ^larket 
street and 35C feet on New Montgomery street. It is built on a solid steel 
framework, which was put up in the record time of 83 days. Xo wood has 
been used in the construction where it could be avoided, marble, steel, tile, 
copper, concrete being used everywhere. E\'erything is of the richest and 
most substantial character. The corridors are lined with magnificently 
grained Italian marble — the great pillars supporting the court are of the 
same. The chandeliers are of heavy brass and cr_\-stal, the stairs marble 
with solid bronze railings. 

The decorations are refine<l and stately. Simi)licit_\- marks the entire 
scheme — an utter absence of elaboration or the spectacular. 

In 1875 the ground occupied by the Palace was valued at $400,000. 
To-day a conservative estimate \-alues this great stiuare block at $3,000,000. 

The Palace has 700 rooms and (vO bathrooms. On the second, seventh 
and eighth floors are located the "royal suites," which present the highest 
examples of elegance and lu.xury in hotel life. These apartments have from 
four to ten connecting rooms, consisting of reception salon, dining rooms, 
parlor, bedrooms, etc. The}' are beautifully decorated and richly furnished, 
and present the acme of modern hotel luxury. 

The old Palace Hotel was equipped \\ith furniture built especialK' by a 
furniture factory established in this city for that purpose. It was the inten- 
tion at first to use nothing but California ^voo(ls, but that was found imprac- 
tical, and the bulk of it was made from South American mahogany. 
Although manv European firms made flattering oft'ers for the furnishing of 
the new Palace building, it is pleasing to learn that scarcely a piece of furni- 
ture nor a bit of ec|uipment was purchased outside of our nwn C(^untry. 
The industries of the United States found a market for their products here, 
and preference was given to the home product in every instance. 

Executive Staff 

The Palace Hotel is cajiabh- managed by the following executi\-e staff: 
Colonel John C. Kirkpatrick, managing director: Obadiah Rich, assistant 
manager: Julian M. Brownell, assistant manager: O. Shaniian, auditor: 
John C. Xewlands, secretary; 1>. F. Downs and O. L. Chaffin, room clerks: 
F. C. Martin and S. \\'. ISarr, cashiers: \'ictor Reiter, niaitre fl'hotel : 
Ernest .\rbogast, chef; James Christian, steward: J. F. Dougherty, purchas- 
ing agent: ]\Irs. L. Pjailey, housekeeper; W. 1". Flint, superintending 
engineer; ^^■. ]. Trimble, assistant engineer; Edgar Cribble, chief electrician: 
Herman Riedel. wine steward; Gus Lindregren, storekeeper. 

Hotel Granada 

San I-Tancisco is still a city of hotels. It has always been noted for its 
great hostelries, and not even its historic hotels surpass in grandeur, magnifi- 
cence and comfort the new Granada Hotel. Looming majesticall}' the 




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imposing building dominates the skyline of San Francisco. Built solidly of 
concrete and steel, this magnificent structure is described in a few words — 
Ten Stories of Solid Comfort. Situated on the northwest corner of Sutter and 
Hyde streets, convenient both to the business district and the residential 
section, and by means of a main car line passing the door, all points of the city 
are easily accessible. 

The main entrance on Sutter street leads into a large foyer, beautifully 
paneled in marble, the walls and the immense dome above being exquisitely 
decorated in gold and set with hundreds of lights, making a most harmonious 
and inviting effect. 

On the first floor are situated a ladies' parlor and reception room, two 
dining-rooms and convenient to these are the cafe and billiard room. Two 
passenger elevators, entirely enclosed with mirrors, assure the guests of rapid 
access to and from their rooms. 

The hotel is thoroughly equipped with fire protection and its employees 
are drilled into an efficient fire guard. This, together Avith the fireproof 
building affords absolute safety. 

What the Granada Hotel has to oft'cr may be summed up in one small 
word. Service. 

Run on the American and European plan, the Granada off'ers ideal sur- 
roundings to families making it their permanent home as well as to the 
temporary guest who wishes an exclusive hotel at moderate rates. The 
cuisine will satisfy the most fastidious epicure. To live at the Granada Hotel 
is to have every convenience and luxury of the twentieth century. 

When it is recalled that the Granada is conducted by Mr. E. de Wolfe, 
nothing further as to its high character need be said. 

Hotel Victoria 

The Hotel Victoria, at Bush and Stockton streets, has one of the finest 
locations in San Francisco — within two or three blocks of the retail shopping 
district, theaters, cafes and railroad ticket offices. 

It is very easily reached from the Ferry by taking any street car up Market 
street and transferring to Powell street; or from Third and Townscnd streets 
station by taking "Ocean" or "Hayes" cars on Townsend street and trans- 
ferring to Powell. 

Being in an elevated portion of the city, from almost every room in the 
house a magnificent panorama of San Francisco, the bay and mountains may 
be seen. This is a feature of the \'ictoria which few other hotels possess. The 
structure itself is a most handsome, solid, substantial and fireproof building, 
occupying not only a commanding position physically by reason of its superb 
location, but in the hearts of all hotel patrons by its superior management and 
service. Mrs. Morris's tact, ability, good judgment and efficiency have rend- 
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The Fairmont Hotel 

The Fairmont Hotel is the most superbly situated hotel in the world. 

As one enters the city of San Francisco whether it l)e by transpacific 
steamer, by ferry from Oakland and the Southern Pacific mole, or by rail 
from the south by way of the Third and Townsend street station, the first 
sight that greets the eye is the gleaming white marble walls of the Iviirmont 
Hotel crowning Nob Hill, a great marble palace that is without counterpart 
on earth. I-"rom every viewpoint the Fairmont dominates the San Francisco 
skyline. It is the last thing that the traveler enroute to the Orient sees as 
he looks back at the city. It is the last thing that the traveler east-bound 
on the luxurious Overland Limited sees as he leaves the upper rear deck of 




street front cif Fairmont Hot.L 



the lerry as he prepares to take the train at ( )aklantl mole. As the "Lark" 
swings down the Peninsula on its nightl}- flight to Los Angeles and the 
South the gleaming lights of the Fairmont flash a farewell to the erstwhile 
guest from between the low hills of the cit}-. 

In point of situation the I'"airmont is tinii|ue and une(|ualled in all the 
world. It has been compared to the Peak Hotel at Hong Kong and to the 
Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, but even these two magnificently situated 
hotel must give the palm to the IviirnKnit. No other hotel on earth com- 
mands such alluringly Ijeautiful \-ie\vs as does the I'airniont. On the north 
h"es the far-famed Golden Gate, which has been written about in nearly every 
languasfe. The windows of the hotel commantl a fine \-iew of this beautiful 



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THE 1010 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 



entrance to the great San Francisco harbor, with its forts on either side and 
its fortified islands in the stream. To the northeast can be seen the purple 
mountains of Marin county with the picturesque town of Sausalito nestling 
at the water's brink and Mount Tamalpais thrusting its rugged skyline into 




Corner of Laurel Court, Fairmont Hotel, where after-dinner coffee is served. 



the background. Midway across the bay lie the islands Alcatraz (the mili- 
tary prison of the United States) towered and pinnacled like one of the old 
islands of the Rhine, then Yerba Buena or Goat Island where the United 
States Naval Training School is established, and between them is Angel 
Island, the headquarters of the Immigration Service and the Quarantine 



TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE TACIFIC COAST 297 

Station. To the east lie the busy cities of Oaklaiul and Berkeley and 
Alameda, by day a mass of houses, by night a glistening circlet of diamonds. 
Beyond these are the rolling hills with the dark summit of Mount Diablo 
rising sinister into the clouds. In the near foreground is the shifting water- 
front with its busy scenes, where ships from every clime and every port gather 
to take or leave their cargoes. River boats slip in and out leaving a great trail 
of foam from their stern wheels. Huge ferries cross back and forth like 
great spiders weaving a net of white and silver. In "Man-o'-war row" can 
be seen the great fighting ships of the world, while the transports which 
carry the troops back and forth from the Philippines remain in waiting at 
their own slips. "Wind-jammers" from the south seas, lumber schooners 



Japanese Room in the Fairmont Hotel, one of the finest in the world. 

from the Sound, tramp steamers from the four parts of the world, great 
ocean liners, pass in through the Golden Gate an unending procession before 
the windows of the Fairmont. To the east and to the southeast lies the city, 
spread out before the hotel, a place where great things have been, and are 
being done. 

The Fairmont crowns Nob Hill, in the heart of the city of San Francisco, 
yet up and above the noise, dust, and confusion of the busier downtown 
streets. It covers an entire city block, being bounded by four streets. 
Mason, Sacramento, Powell and California. On all of these except Mason 
(on which the Fairmont fronts), are street car lines that place it within five 



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minutes of any part of the business districts. Before the fire of 1906 Xob 
Hill was the home of the millionaires and bonanza kings of the Pacific Coast. 
Here they built their mansions and laid out their beautiful grounds. Not far 
from where the Fairmont now stands was the home of James Fair, foremost 
among the powerful men in those days of gold and power. The I'airmont 
was first designed and built by the daughter of James Fair on this historic 
site and it is from the family name that the present name is taken. Nob 
Hill is now the site of the most exclusive clubs in the city and the beautiful 
l-"airmont makes up for the loss of many of the fine old residences which 
formerly were the glory of the place. The magnificent Pacific Union Club is 
just across Mason street, while the beautiful L'uiversity Club is opposite on 
F^owell street. 




Hotel men at the Fairmont Hotel about to start on automobile trip about San Francisco. 

The Fairmont is built of steel and concrete, granite and marble. In form, 
design and architectural beauty it is so different from any other hotel that 
one comes to regard it as a great palace rather than a hotel built for com- 
mercial purposes. At every point one is impressed with the spaciousness 
and loftiness of it, and instinctively feels that the builders were inspired to 
do something greater and better than had ever been done in this line before, 
which should be in keeping with the superb setting which its owners had 
chosen. In its spacious lobby of gold and Italian marble half a thousand 
guests can rest in comfort without feeling crowded in the slightest. Its 
great ballrooms, banquet rooms, cafes, grills, reception rooms and other 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 



•299 



places for social functions are niagiiificent in appointment and perfect in 
their arrangement. Some idea of the immensity of these apartments can be 
gained from the following descriptions. It is because of these wonderful 
facilities and the general atmosphere of dignity, elegance and refinement 
that the I-'airniont is recognized as the social center of the citv. 

Main Floor of the Fairmont a Marvel 

When one enters the massi\e granite portal of the Fairmont he steps 
immediately into the grand lobby. This is perhaps the largest and loftiest 
room of its kind in America. Its high ceiling is of beaten gold supported 
hv immense columns of Italian marljle. The office is on the fore side to 




The :Marlile Lubby ot the Faiiimmt excels all utheis in height and spaciousness. 

the right while at the extreme left is the grand staircase leading to the 
mezzanine and upper floor. There are two sets of elevators, one at each 
end of the great room. The Lobby is carpeted with great thick rugs of 
rich red hue and furnished with many easy chairs, settees, sofas and loung- 
ing seats. To the right of the entrance are the ladies" reception and retiring 
rooms with maids constantly in attendance while to the left is the library 
and reading room with its great fireplace and fine rich furnishings. 

Wonderful Laurel Court of the Fairmont 

Directly across the lobby from the main entrance is the beautiful Laurel 
Court. This is one of the most unicjuely beautiful lounging places and tea 



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rooms in the world. Tlirough tlie thickly leaded glass of the arching domes 
that cover this magnificent room, the light filters softly down on rich foliage 
and shrubbery on gleaming silver and spotless napery. The Laurel Court 
is a favorite rendezvous for San Francisco's socially select. A stringed 
orchestra gives a special concert each afternoon during the tea hours of 
from four to six. Here also the pleasing custom of serving after dinner 
coffee and cigars is observed and each evening the court is filled with 
smartly gowned women and men in evening clothes. The court is also 
a favored place for private dinner parties. On such occasions, it is fre- 
quently screened off with palms and flowers making a very secluded 
banquet room. 




View of tlie beautiful Laurel Cnurt Tea Room of the Fairmont Hotel. 

Main Dining Salon Overlooking the Bay and Mountains 

Just beyond the Laurel Court is the magnificent main dining salon of the 
Fairmont extending almost the full width of the building. From its high 
Irench windows a wonderful panorama of San Francisco Bay, the water 
front and the new city is obtained. This dining room is of great size and is 
capable of seating over five hundred persons at one time. To the right of 
the main dining room is the gre}- breakfast room a great room frequently 
used for banquet rooms as well as for breakfast uses. It is furnished and 
finished in soft shades of grey. Both the dining room and the gre\- room 
have extremely high ceilings and not a single post or pillar mars the 
symmetry of its proportions. The dining room is decorated in cream color 
with ornamentation of nugget gold presenting simple, dignified, yet 
extremelv rich effect. 



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CHAKLES ALDKX ('l n iKl-; 
Manager Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco 



When Charles Alden Cooke, the genial and 
popular manager of the Fairmont Hotel, first 
left the paternal roof in Boston, Massachu- 
setts, in 1878, he entered into his work with 
the same vim and energy that has charac- 
terized his subsequent career. His first job 



was that of brakeman on the old Eastern 
Railroad, but by the time he was nineteen he 
was promoted to the position of conductor, 
being the youngest train conductor in the 
State of Massachusetts, if not in this country. 
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Pacific Railroad, running out of St. Paul, 
Minnesota. In six montlas he was ag^ain 
promoted to the car accountant's office in St. 
Paul. 

In ISSd he left St. Paul to become assistant 
to the superintendent of the Wagner Sleeping 
Car Coinpany in Boston. After a year's uork 
in this position he resigned to accept service 
with Raymond & Whitcomb's. He was sent 
West as assistant to the agent In Southern 
California. In this position, where he was 
thrown in contact with hundreds of strangers 
each month, Cooke found his real work. He 
capitalized his tact, diplomacy, good nature 
and good fellowship and made a friend of 
everyone with whom he came in contact. 
Rapidly he became conductor of their South- 
ern California parties and then general Pacific 
Coast agent. 

In June, 1909. he resigned from the Raymond 
<fc Whitcomb Company, and accepted the posi- 
tion of manager of the palatial Fairmont Ho- 
tel, in San Francisco, under Colonel .John C. 
Kirkpatrick, director general of the Palace 
Hotel Company, which operates both the Fair- 
mont and Palace Hotels in that city. 

His advent into the hotel business occa- 
sioned a great deal of comment throughout the 
country, and his career has been watched with 
keenest interest. Friends and acquaintances 
alike (for Cooke has no enemies) were curious 
to see how this man, without any previous 



experience in the hotel business, would handle 
the vast problem of operating a magnificent 
hostelry like the Fairmont — one of the great- 
est hotels in the world. Those who knew him 
were not at all surprised at the wonderful 
success he has made since the very start, for 
it is in line with the things he had done in the 
past. 

He is especially esteemed by the high class 
Orientals, both Japanese and Chinese, who 
have made his hotel their headquarters in San 
Francisco. He has a whole safe filled with 
superb presents which these guests have given 
him in token of their personal esteem and re- 
gard. Among these may be mentioned the 
diamond mounted cigarette case from the hand 
of Prince Kuni of Japan, who stayed at the 
Fairmont for some weeks: the handsome pearl 
scarf pin and cuff links from Baron Shibasawa, 
the Rothschild of Japan, who was at the Fair- 
mont with the Honorable Commercial Com- 
missioners, and the great silver loving cup 
from Baron Kanda and other members of the 
Commission. Lord Northcliffe. the great 
English publisher of the London Times and 
other journals, was also Cooke's guest, and 
was extremely jileased with his house and 
management. 

He was in the forefront in everything that 
was done to entertain the H. M. M. B. A., 
and it is needless to say that he has thereby 
added largely to his circle of friends. 



Louis XV. Ball Room a Revelation 

The ball room of the Fairmont is the largest in San Francisco and the 
most popular. The recor'U of tlie hotel show that dnrino; the season it is 




The main restaurant of the Fairmont Hote". with its row of French windows over- 
looking San Francisco Bay. 



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in use an average of three nights eaeh week which is a record even in fun- 
loving, socially inclined, San i^'rancisco. In its magnificent ivor)- and gold 
decorations, heavy blue silken tapestries, and immense plate glass mirrors 
covering one full side, it is in every detail a replica of the famous ball room 
in the Palace of the Tuileries. On the north side the great windows over- 
look the Golden Gate and the foreign quarter of the city, which has been 
rebuilt on the bay shore to the northward. The ball room is flanked by 
nuiuerous reception rooms, cloak rooms, and check rooms for men and 
women. Numerous boxes overlooking the dancing floor opening on to the 
wide corridor of the mezzanine floor. These are given over to musicians 
and also to \-isitors. The l:)all room floor is of especially i^repared hard 




The Bar of the Fairmont is in the Men's Crypt Grill. 



maple. It is built along original lines. Its great width, in which the girders 
make a single span, gives it a peculiar elasticity, making it one of the finest 
dancing floors in America. The ball room can accommodate four hundred 
people on its floor without over-crowding. It has been the scene of most of 
the brilliant army and navy receptions, banquets, balls and assemblies that 
have been held in San Francisco. Here was held the wonderful "Reception 
to the Fleet, at which some three thousand people were present. The 
famous Greenway assemblies and cotillions, as well as all the private balls 
and entertainments. 



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Red Banquet Room Adjoining the Ball Room 

At the east end of the ball room is the superb Red Room, a banquet 
room that has taken a place in the history of such events on the Coast. 
The Red Room takes its name from its furnishings. The walls are covered 
with heavy silk tapestries, the floor is covered with thick, heavy rugs of the 
same color, the chairs and sofas being finished to harmonize. Here are 
held the private dinners and banquets given by and to the men of affairs 
of the Coast. The record event of this kind took place in this room when 
Raphael Weil, one of the merchant princes of San Francisco banqueted 125 
of his friends on the occasion of his decoration by the French government 
with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. On this occasion the entire number 
sat at a single huge round table in this red room. The red room is most 
frequently used in connection with the ball room forming an ideal lounging 
salon in which refreshments are usually served. 

The Norman Hall 

Another Banquet Room of Immense Size and Stately Proportions 

The Fairmont is built on the summit of Xob Hill and its unique situa- 
tion has been fully appreciated by the builders. The main floor is on the 
level of Mason street. The sharp slope of the hill from Alason to Powell 
permits of several other stories on the eastern side. On the floor below the 
lobby is situated the baronial Norman Hall, the largest assembly room of 
its kind in any hotel west of Chicago. The room itself is of vast proportions 
and stately in its simplicity. In it 800 persons can be seated and served at 
one time as on the occasion of the magnificent banquet which was given to 
President Taft by the associated civic bodies of San Francisco. The floor 
of the Xorman Hall is tessellated mosaic in quaint Xorman designs. Its 
lofty ceiling is spanned by great walnut girders, without a pillar. The 
chandeliers are of hand wrought iron in old Xorse designs, reproduced with 
unfailing fidelity from one of the old X'ormandy cathedrals. The entire 
east side of the Xorman Hall is lined with high French windows which 
extend clear to the floor. These open directly on to the terrace, a stone 
flagged, open air court some hundred and fifty feet long by half as wide. A 
circular railing separates it from the gardens to which entrance is given by 
the grand staircase. Below the terrace is the private park with its grassy 
lawns, slopes, graveled walks and flower beds. The Terrace is flanked by 
two low wings, given up to the bachelor apartments of the hotel, and is 
therefore, amply protected from wind and sun. A more delightful place in 
which to take "luncheon al frisco" can not be imagined, and the numerous 
parties which are held here daily attest to its popularity. 

Tunnel Entrance a Novelty 

At the southeast corner of the Fairmont entering underneath the private 
park and grounds is a long tunnel that leads directly to the elevator. This 



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gives direct access to all parts of the house from the Powell street level or 
tour floors below the lobby. 

Upstairs Arrangements Perfect 

Every room of the five hundred and fifty rooms in the Fairmont is an 
outside room, opening onto the great court or the various streets. Being 
removed above the noise, dust and confusion of the busier down town 
streets, the rooms of the Fairmont provide perfectly pure air, cjuiet and rest. 




^'ie\\■ frniii the ilining-rooin windows of the Fairmont Hotel. 

Each of the rooms has a large clothes closet and also an immense private 
bath room of white porcelain and tile. They are richly furnished and are 
equipped with every convenience and luxury for the pleasures of the Fair- 
mont guests. 



The St. Francis Hotel 

The St. Francis completes the trio of San Francisco's great hotels, and it 
will be fully described in the next chapter. 



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CHAPTER XIV 

TUESDAY, APRIL 19 

TAMALPAIS DAY, THE ST. FRANCIS SMOKER AND THE ST. 

FRANCIS HOTEL 

This was the one unfortunate day of the trip. The weather, which 
should have been of the best, was of the worst, for sightseeing. The H. M. 
M. V>. A., as guests of the X'orthwestern Pacific Railroad and the .Mill 
X'allev & Mt. Tanialpais Scenic Railway, were taken over the "crookeilest 
mountain railway in the world." Let Mr. Henry J- Bohn tell the story: 

"At 1 :\?> we gather at the Market Street Ferry and the ferryboat takes 
us to Sausalito and thence by train to ]\Iill Valle}-, and now we are in 
the cars that take the tourists back and forth over the "crookedest railroad 




Muir Inn at Muir \A'on(is en .Mt. 'Pamalitais Railway. 



in the world," up Mt. Tanialpais. And here at last we ha\"e struck a Jonah, 
and a Jonah that spouts water and fog. What would have been one of the 
very gems of the whole entertainment is spoiled by the unkind action of 
Jupittr Phuius, but it is hard to dampen our enthusiasm, and as the two 
trains follow each other at some distance around curve after curve, rise after 
rise, across spindling bridges and alongside beetling crags and sheer 
precipices, the crowd sings and yells and waves, and the echoes of "Has 
Anybody Here Seen Kelly," "Rings on Her Fingers and Bells on Her Toes,' 
and other such classic music reverberates along the mountain side. We 
reach the summit, and swamp for coffee and sandwiches the Tanialpais 



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Tavern. Of course, Dr. James is with us, and as we start up the mountain 
he keeps promising us that it will be bright and clear on the summit, and 
now that we are at the top and can't see more than fifty feet, we threaten 
to throw the promisorial doctor off the top of the mountain! But you 
can't spoil a day for the H. M. M. B. A. — the organization rises above all 
conditions and environment and is bound to have a good time wherever 
you land it." 




The Double Bow-knot on the Mt. Tamalpais Railway, 
crookedest railroad on earth." 



••The 



The facts of the case were that, just before we started for the summit, 
Mr. C. F. Runyon, the president of the Mt. Tamalpais railway, who was 
with the party, had received a telephone communication from the hotel 
above saying that it had cleared off and the sun was shining brightly. He 
desired me to make this announcement. As I have hundreds of times seen 




Observatory 
on the 
summit of 
Mt. Tamalpais. 



The Tavern 
of Tamalpais 
near the top 
of the mountain. 



Profile Rock 
near the Tavern, 
from which 
a magnificent 
view is obtained. 



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the sun shine brightly above the clouds through which I have just ascended, 
I made the announcement and stuck to it that it wouhl he bright the higher 
we got. Unfortunately the clouds descended before we ascended, so I was 
called upon to make good. I tried my best by assuring the Avind-blown 
and fog-bedraggled ladies and the male "sissies" — no one else found any 




Gravity Car, on the Mt. TanialpaLs Railway, coming down tlie moun- 
tain side througli beautiful woodland scenery. 



fault or needed to be comtorted — that there was always sunshine in the 
heart of a healthy member of the H. M. M. I!. A. 

Now to give our guests an idea of what they actually missed, here is a 
true picture of the ride and the scene presented from the summit: 

On the summit there is a contrivance called a Locator, which, of its 
kind, is the best thing we have seen for locating points of interest from a 
high altitude. A pillar supports a circular dial lying perfectly flat. Around 



312 'iHE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

the rim of this dial is stamped in the names of about fiftv or sixty points 
of interest within the Hne of vision. In the center of the dial is a pin 
supporting a heavy iron tube about one inch in diameter and twelve inches 
long. This tube swings around. One end of it is slightly heavier than the 
other, and the heavier end of it rests upon pins of varying height set into 
the disc opposite the names of the locator points. Thus, if you wish to see 
Mount Hamilton, sixty-si.x miles away, you rest the heavy end of the iron 
tube on the pin opposite the name Mount Hamilton. You look through the 
tube and it locates the spot e.xactly. In this waj^ the Sierra Xevadas, 145 
miles distant ; the State Capitol dome at Sacramento, 7i miles distant ; San 
Francisco, 14 miles distant; the Clifi' House site and seal rocks. 11 miles 
distant; Golden Gate, the islands, Berkeley, San Rafael, the Muir Redwoods, 
and all other points marked on the disc are easily and quickly located. 

The Smoker at Hotel St. Francis 

Here is \\hat the San Francisco "Chronicle" said of this smoker: 

"Backward for fifty years stepped the old man with the scythe at the 
St. Francis last night, and in the ballroom there appeared a prototype of 
'Roaring Camp,' so vividly real that the 300 'tenderfeet' who manage that 
many hotels in the United States w-ere completely bewildered. Every char- 
acter of the mining camp was there save only that which brought 'luck' 
to the roaring settlement. 

"Behind the bar, where 'straight drinks only' were served, stood a black- 
mustached individual with two pistols in his belt. The bar occupied one 
corner of the room. In another corner the 'tiger.' snarling and hungry 
mawed, braved miner and tenderfoot alike, its keeper calling out the familiar 
calls of mining camps, "Five, red, odd, first eighteen, first twelve, center 
column wins.' Real money was played at this reawakening of Salome 
Jane, and gold was more in evidence than silver. 

"In another part of the great hall cowboys, with sombreros, chaps and 
lassos, rode bucking bronchos, using lash and spur and also calling with 
equal vehemence upon the blasphemous deities of the old-time hero of the 
camps. It was only the equine portion of the reproduction that was unreal 
last night, for in this make-believe array the bucking broncho was only a 
hobby horse grown tall. The effect was the same, however. 

The 'Heathen Chinee' 

"In still another portion of the wide St. Francis hall were groups of 
miners, long-queued and frightened Orientals, and all the other characters 
that made the old-time California famed not only for its gold, but for its 
romantic settings. In addition to the reproduction of the mining camp 
there was. in the center of the hall, a stage upon which vaudeville enter- 
tainment continued, mingling the old with the new in startling contrast. 
Above the songs and stories of the actors arose the calls of the dealers at 
the various games. 



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"Into the St. Francis ballroom was crowded all the flavor of the mining 
camp of long ago. From the soubrette of the dance hall to the cowboy in 
camp, every character introduced to the world in Bret Harte's romances was 
present. Even the 'sky pilot' was there, for at intervals a lanky, long- 
haired individual passed from group to group around the gambling games, 
exhorting them to turn from the vain pursuit of chance. 

"Two roulette wheels, two faro banks and a crap table provided all the 
play wanted by those who believed their luck was with them. All the 
games were well patronized, and at the 'crap' table especialh' the 'seven- 
eleven' devotees gathered in great numbers. Those who were unable to 
get near enough to play were forced to solace themselves with the automatic 
roulettes in another portion of the room. 

"Another feature of this night of novelty was a prize fight that was 
really a fight. Two 'scrappers' were engaged at a fixed sum with the 
understanding that there would be no fixed sum unless there was something 
doing every minute. As a result there was a lively fight that many a 
promoter would have wished to have staged. 

"The novelty was conceived and arranged by the combined efforts of 
Manager Woods of the St. Francis, Assistant Managers Childs, Sword and 
Alexander and Thomas Keating, superintendent of service at the big hotel. 
It was attended by practically every visiting hotelman in the city and by 
many others who were fortunate enough to gain admittance. The afifair 
was pronounced to have been one of the most novel and successfvd witnessed 
by the visitors." 

Henry J. Bohn of the "Hotel World" thus tells the story: 

'A\'ay down at Los Angeles we saw Brother James Woods for only a 
little bit one day, but during that time he was passing out a suspicious 
looking long green ticket that read in part, 'H. M. M. B. A. Championship 
Smoker.' It was a box ticket and the price of it was $100 in big red figures. 
The one I got specified Section P, East Side, Box 23, and in the body of 
the ticket appear the words, 'Hotel St. Francis Arena.' It all looked a little 
mysterious to me, and the twinkle in Woods' eye as he handed me the ticket 
meant something. And so to-night our itinerary reads, 'A smoker for the 
gentlemen at the St. Francis.' We have also been furnished with a ticket 
of admission which reads: 'This entitles the holder to one Prayer Book, 
souvenir of H. M. M. B. A. If presented at the smoker to be held at the 
Hotel St. Francis, Tuesday evening, April 19th, 1910, San I'rancisco, Cali- 
fornia ; retain this ticket : not transferable.' And as we enter the Prayer 
Book is handed to us. It is the most beautiful pack of cards ever conceived 
and is bound into a leather binding in the form of a book. That is the 
Prayer Book. At the same time we are handed a copy of 'The Evening 
Prayer', 'the only illustrated newspaper in any mining camp in the world.' 
It claims to print 'All the news that is fit to print,' but some of our boys 
declare it prints all the things that are unfit to print! 

"Well, here we are! In the greatest mining camp on earth — back in 
'49! To describe our surroundings is simply impossible. The great and 



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James Woods, -Mauagei Si. Fraiuis Hotel, San Fram isco, L'alit'oi iiia. 



beautiful ballroom of the St. Francis has been converted into a mining 
camp with a prize-fighting ring in the center, with all the accoutrements 
and appliances thereto belonging. Xever, no, never, since the days of '49 
has man seen anything like this. The vaudeville program that is put on the 
stage in the middle of the room would fill the biggest auditorium in the 
world at $20 for standing room only. It is useless to try to describe or tell 
anvthing about the details of this show liecause our eastern friends -would 



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<inipl_\- charge us with I)eing" wholesale prevaricators, and what's the use of 
ruining our reputation for veracity and sanit}-? The smoker at Los Angeles 
was beautiful and artistic : in fact, a 'ladies" function,' and the ladies were 
invited, and it is doubtful if H. 'SI. M. 11. A. ladies ever took in a show that 
was enjoyed half so much, liut the St. I""rancis smoker was gotten up for 
the 'boys.' Recently there has been a 'Mothers' Day' all over our land. 
Some thoughtless man asked why they shouldn't ha\'c a "Fathers' Day,' 
and an experienced matron replied sharply that 'Father has the nights.' 
Surely this is 'fathers' night' at the St. Francis, and 'father' won't forget it 
very soon. Here is ever}'thing to eat and drink that the hungry 'miners" 
can wish without mone_\- and witlKiut ])rice, and yet there is a chance here 
to get rid of your boodle, if }0u are a good sport! 

"But I will have to draw a curtain over this indescribable, inconceiva];)le 
and unforgettable night's entertainment. \\'e ha\-e never seen anything like 
it before and we will never see it again, and there are thousands of men 
who would pay the ]irice of a trip across the continent just for that one 
night." 

It was hard to realize that all this transpired in the ex(|uisite classical 
.ballroom of the St. I'^ancis, where the most exclusive social affairs of the 
city are given, (riiven carte blanche by Mr. \\'oods, the committee in charge 
temporarily wrecked that \ast and nulile hall. Thev roofed and walled it 
with canvas, floored it with tan bark, and then with this circus tent as a 
background, created a picture of a typical California mining camp — wooded 
foothills rolling back to lofty mountains on all sides, a mist of gold for the 
horizon and a blue sky above. The thing was a triumph of scenic illusion, 
and when one saw real old-time miners panning out gold from a real stream 
in the foreground, it was hard to tell just at what |)oint that stream merged 
into the painting, and it was ecjually hard to tell which was the last of the 
real telegraph poles that ran to the stock-broker's office. These \\'ires led not 
only to a stock-broker's office, but to a mining town of the old sort, inhabited 
largely by men of the old days. Some of them were running faro games, 
some were presiding over roulette, some arbitrated battles of craps. There 
were also dance halls which announced fandangoes every night, and a series 
of bars where everything from beer to champagne not only flowed free, but 
was free all night. All the \vell known characters of the old days were 
present in costume, and never a dull moment from the start, which was made 
by a band of mounted cowboys who cavorted through the lobby and the big 
dining rooms, blaring an overture on their brass instruments before leading 
the cro\\(l up to the camp. There was plenty of alfresco fun, n(:)t planned 
on the program, one feature of which was when Al Severance was escorted 
into the ring and presented with a medal (leather) as the champion "dog 
catcher" of the ]iartv. Me had sex'en or seventeen frankfurters to his credit 
in as man\- minutes. The ""medal" was a neat creation, about the size of a 
baseball catchcr"s breast protector. 




^^' li}^! iff 1 







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The St. Francis Hotel 

The most San I-'ranciscan place in San Francisco, the St. Francis, has 
gained an indi\i(lualit_v possessed by no other hotel. It is the scene of the 
Patronesses", Alardi Gras and Colonial balls and the most exclusive functions 
of local society — yet the atmosphere is essentially democratic. It has been 
patronized by President Taft, I'rince Fushimi of Japan, the uncles of the 
Emperor of China, the ambassadors, nobility, and eminent men of Occident 
and Orient — yet the humblest citizen of San Francisco feels a proprietary 
interest in the establishment. 




This beautiful room, with sculptured marble jiillars and tapestr>' panels, is tlie 
scene of tlie regular Sunday s>'mphon>- concerts. 

Union Square, in front of the hotel, is the theater of all important car- 
nivals and public celebrations like the New Year's festival just closed. Here 
Don Caspar and the Queen were welcomed during the Portola. Here the 
Queen was crowned at the base of the Dewey Monument during the Admis- 
sion Day festival. Here practically every public ceremony or fete is held. 

Within two blocks of Union Square are located the fashionable theaters, 
most of the clubs, and the smart shopping district. Chinatown is a walk of 
only six blocks away on Grant avenue. 

This open space in the heart of the city offers exceptional opportunity 
for day and night display during public festivals. During the Portola cele- 
bration the Japanese colony decorated the park with huge floating fishes and 



318 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

bizarre oriental devices, and sent up day fireworks, releasing grotesque 
images in the sky that floated all over the city. At night the usual brilliant 
pyrotechnical display was given, the hotel in the background being outlined 
in incandescents. On such occasion the carnival parades circle the park, 
and on events like the visit of the Chinese I'rince at the St. Francis the mili- 
tary escorts follow the same line of march. 

In no other metropolis is there a like example of the city's acti\-ities being 
centered in one place. 



Two Irishmen were riding on a Geary street car in San Francisco some 
years ago. 

"Working hard, Pat?" said one. "Work, is it? Sure I've a snap. I'm 
tearing down a Presbyterian church — an' gettin' paid for it." 

This Presbyterian church occupied part of a block that faced L'nion 
Square about 1901. At that time the park had been beautified by the munic- 
ipal commissioners to a point at which the public began to realize its 
importance as a decorative feature of the city. In the very heart of the 
down-town district it diflfused an old world atmosphere that could hardly 
be found elsewhere in busy America. The principal clubs established lu.xu- 
rious quarters overlooking the tropical expanse surrounding the monument 
which commemorates Dewey's victory at Manila Bay ; and the leading 
merchants sought quarters around this S(|uare, to which a native love of 
whatever is beautiful or picturescjue attracted San F"ranciscans and travelers. 

At this time, also, a general awakening of wealthy Americans to the 
attractions of their own country and the fascinations of the Orient had 
diverted to California a large number of travelers who had formerly sought 
recreation in Europe : and of these tourists, San Francisco, the city which 
represents to America what Paris does to the continent, received the most 
generous share. 

The local hotel accommodations then existing were quite inadequate to 
cope with the demands of an unprecedented influx of luxury-loving visitors 
and the situation became one that appealed not alone to business enterprise 
but to civic pride. At this juncture a number of the important interests of 
the cit\' formed the corporation known as the San h'rancisco Hotel Company, 
for the pur]30se of establishing a caravansary worthy of standing at the 
threshold of the Occident as the representative of California hospitality. The 
board of directors of this organization is practically the same to-day as when 
the company was organized, and is composed of the following gentlemen : 
Mr. H. T. Scott, president ; ^^'illiam Thomas, S. L. Goldstein, '\\'m. L. 
Gerstle, F. W. Dohrmann, A. B. C. Dohrmann, C. E. Green, C. T. Crocker 
and J. J. MahiMiy. 

In determining" tipon a site many things were considered. It was desir- 
able, of course, that the local color of the city should be emphasized in the 
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319 



and accessibility of location were necessary. For these requirements the 
selection of Union Square was inevitable. 

The designing and planning of the building is the result of an exhaustive 
study of the great caravansaries in every important metropolis in the world. 
The members of this firm resolved to create in the St. Francis a new ideal for 
modern hotels, ^\'ith this object in view e\ery prominent hostelry in Europe 
was visited ; and chateaux, art galleries and palaces were studied. The result 
was the erection of a state)}- wing-formed structure flanking one side of 
Union Square. 




.Sooiet>' Alerr.N'inakers in the A\'!uie and Quid Rouin of the St. Fi'anois after the famous Mardi Gras. 



Every room in this building was an outside room, and as the structure 
faced the east, all apartments were sunswept during the day. Each detail of 
the \-ast work was executed with a fine appreciation of values, and the crea- 
tion of an unusually beautiful and harmonious interior was in no case 
retarded by limitations of expense. 

Two wings of the hotel were completed and the institution opened its 
doors to the public March 21, 1904. After a few days, during which the 
citizens were entertained by the management and allowed to inspect the 
building, the St. I'rancis settled down to lousiness and began a career of 
success that has earned the hostelry a reputation for "luck" among hotel- 
men everywhere. The fashionable balls were given in the regal White and 
Gold Room, and in this same spacious hall series of concerts by the greatest 
musical artists of the world were enjoyed by patrons of the Muses. The 
Sequoia Club met regularly on the mezzanine floor, using the Red Room for 
refreshments and the Green Room for exhibitions of paintings 1:)\- the promi- 
nent Western artists. Thus the St. l-'rancis became almost immediateh- the 



320 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

center of the social, literary and artistic life of the city. It was pervaded by 
the atmosphere that has given personality to the city of San Francisco. 

It was not "luck" that blest the enterprise of the San Francisco Hotel 
Compan\% but a judicious recognition of existing local conditions and future 
needs. 

From one of the upper windows on tlie Powell street side one could see 
diagonally across the square the quarters of the Union League Club and the 
impressive building of the Pacific Union Club. A few doors from the corner 
were the Bohemian and the Family clubs. The Columbia, Orpheum and 
Fischer's theaters and all the fashionable shops were within a radius of about 
four blocks. All car lines passed or transferred to the doors of the hostelry. 
No more convenient site could have been chosen. 

From the same window one could see below stretching before the very 
doors of the hostelry an expanse of tropical park that lent the warm color 
feeling of California to all its surroundings. In the distance, past the serrated 
skyline, one's gaze swept the wonderful panorama of the Bay — battleships 
at anchor; Neapolitan feluccas sailing to the fishing, fleets of pleasure craft 
flashing dots of white in and out amid the archipelago, picturesquely rugged 
islands forming a beautiful composition in every vista, wooded foothills, 
rolling back to lofty mountains. No more beautiful location could be found. 

Not only did parties of distinguished travelers (like Prince Fushimi and 
his suite during his notable tour) make the St. Francis their headquarters, 
but the policy of reasonable rates that has always been maintained gained 
instant and wide favor among the general traveling public. The hotel was 
sharing most bountifully in the general prosperity of San Francisco 
when ! 

It is futile to attempt a description of the situation in San P'rancisco 
immediately after the cataclysmic disaster of April 18, 1906. Briefly one 
might say that the city was, for the time being, effaced — the accomplishments 
of the past, the plans for the future. There was one thing left, however, the 
grit of the fighting frontiersman, the blood of the pathfinding pioneer. The 
ashes were still smouldering in the ruins around Union Square when the 
San Francisco Hotel Company asked permission to erect immediately in the 
park a temporary hostelry that would oflfer every convenience of advanced 
hotel science and thus demonstrate to the traveling public that San Francisco 
was equal to any situation, and would emerge triumphantly from adversity. 
The company agreed to turn over to the city all profits that might be made 
during its occupancy of the temporary structure (to continue until a reason- 
able time had been allowed for the refitting of the main building), to present 
the temporary hotel building to the city upon moving into the permanent 
quarters, and to restore Union Square Park to the condition it was in prior to 
the disaster. 

This timely exhibition of public spirit acted as a "call to quarters." One 
big firm after another came to the front and announced its intention to 
rebuild on downtown sites in a form worthy of the future that destiny has 
planned for the "Gateway to the Orient." 



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It is needless to say that the generous offer of the San Francisco Hotel 
Company was [)romptly accepted and work on a temporary hotel of simple 
classic design was immediately started. Almost simultaneously men were 
set to work on the main three-wing structure and property owners all aroand 
the square and throughout the ci\ic center ga\"e rush orders on the massive 
class of buildings that have since arisen. 

As a little incident of human interest, it ma_\- be mentioned that a small 
dog belonging to one of the employees of the hotel was forgotten in the 
general exodus from the building when the flames drew near, and remained 
in the wine-ctllar for four daN's without food or water. The animal, a fo.\- 




Tl-je Ladies' Kecepti m R:>om, finished in Circas:^ian walnut and ricli fabrics. 



terrier, was rescued after this harrowing experience, and was presented to 
the manager, James Woods, who immediately adopted it as the mascot of 
the hotel, and christened it "Francis." 

Luck surely smiled upon the enterprise of the San Francisco Hotel Com- 
pany. Far and wide through the publicity of the press and the numberless 
connections of the railroad companies, travelers became ac(|uainted with the 
fact that it was possible to visit San Francisco and view the titanic ruins 
while enjoj'ing every comfort of modern hotel life at the "Little" St. Francis. 
The old staff was there under the direction of .Mr. Woods, the Grill Roim 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 



was o])cn in the main liuilding with Mctor, the chief, Lieb, the maitre de 
hotel, and all the familiar faces; and the little hotel in the park provided 
the highest class of accommodations for 200 guests. 

The day the temporary St. Francis opened its doors 106 guests were on 
the register, and practically thereafter the demand for rooms was so great 
that i1 was necessary to place cots in the lobby and parlor. 

Urder such conditions it was imperative to hasten the completion of the 
main structure, and every effort was exerted to expedite the colossal work- 
that had to be done in refitting the Iniilding. 




The St. Francis identifie.s itself witli every movement for tlie promoticn of Nati\'e Art. 

On November 30, 1907, with two wings fully completed and 450 rooms 
ready for occupancy, the restored Hotel St. Francis opened its doors to the 
public. 

Nothing could better symbolize the triumph of San Francisco over 
adversity than the Hotel St. Francis as it appeared on the opening night, 
nineteen months after the fire. It was a building fitly described as the 
"farthest advance of science in hotel service." and the guests who assembled, 
representing practically every prominent family in California, appreciated the 
significance of this fact. 

The brilliant gathering which filled every table in the house was typically 
Californian, not only in the representation of old families, but in the color 
and social atmosphere it diffused. Beautiful, charmingly-gowned women ; a 



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tropical profusion of flowers; a witty, spirited company; an ideal setting — 
everything contributed to make the evening historic in the social annals of 
San P'rancisco. This was the formal announcement to the world of San 
Francisco's successful rehabilitation. 

The first impression received by one entering the building is that of the 
unusually effective rendering of big distances. Standing in the lobby one 
catches vistas of the Cafe, the White and Gold Room, and, looking through 
the Ladies' Reception Room, the Tapestry Room. The Lobby is an admir- 
able example of color and composition. Massive cut glass electroliers hang 
from a ceiling of dull gold, supported by deep green marble columns. The 
walls are likewise paneled in the dark marble which throws into relief rh.e 
masses of dark red frirnied 1.)\' the ijrcat ruijs and the furniture. 




The Colonial Ballroom is devoted not only to the smartest functions of the 
"inner circle." but to the concert of the .St. Francis Musical Art .Society, 
at which such artists as Gadski. Schumann-Heinck, Nordica, Bonci, 
Kreissler, Sembrich, Scotti. Pas^iuale, and Jomelli are presented. 



In the cafe, avenues of pillars of deep brown and gold support a ceiling 
of unusual beauty, which received its inspiration in the Chateau Rrissac in 
France. From the ceiling depend huge gilded baskets carrying a wealth of 
greens, perfecting the remarkable tone sympathy of this interior. 

The White and Gold Room suggests, in its regal simplicity, the ballroom 
of an imperial palace on the continent. The Tapestry Room, individualized 
by sculptured marble pillars and tapestry panels, is one of the most inter- 
esting halls in the world. 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 



Between the Tapestry Room and the Lobby is the Ladies' Reception 
Room, where guests of the gentler sex find a restful place to chat with their 
friends or to wait while rooms are being assigned. This room is remarkable 
for the fine hand-carving of the Old English furniture and the subtle grada- 
tions of color formed by rare fabrics and Circassian walnut panels. It is 
improbable that better tone values were ever attained in interior decorations. 

In the Writing and Reading Rooms — an expression of the Renaissance — 
and in the Gentlemen's Clubroom the fine color sympathy that pervades 
the hotel is evident. The floor of the clubroom is of red Moravian tiles; 
comfortable settees, upholstered with Itathcr, are built in the walls around 




White anil go'.d Supper Room where society gatliers after the play. The fashionable thea- 
ters are grouped within a radius of two blocks from the St. Francis. 

the room; the walls are wainscoted with gray mahogany; and the ceiling is 
supported by great beams of the same beautiful wood. A large Italian man- 
telpiece, high enough to stand under, completes the decoration of this luxu- 
rious retreat. 

To any one who visited the St. Francis before the fire, one of the pleas- 
antest experiences is to find so many of the popular old features retained. 
There are few sights more \\'elcome to the gourmet than the Rathskeller in 
the basement with its snug aspect of an old hunting lodge. Some changes 
have been made, however. An electric grill that cooks a steak or chop in 
five minutes has been installed ; then there are perambulators that bring the 
roast to one's table, where it is served piping hot. In this room a new method 
of trcatintr fine woodwork has been introduced. The late Stanford White had 



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A Nocturne St. Francis Grill Room. 



326 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. :\I. B. A. 

planned to use this scheme, which consists of subjecting the wood to a pow- 
erful sand blast that eliminates all the soft fiber and leaves a rugged indurated 
surface that is very beautiful. 

Many new features have been introduced on the upper floors. Perhaps the 
most important is the ballroom, which is en suite with a series of reception 
rooms on the mezzanine. A sequence of delicate tints and gold furniture 
characterize the decoration. The dancing floor, 56 by 76 feet, is made of 
black walnut, with ball bearings, laid upon elastic second-growth ash. Around 
the dancing floor is a promenade along which guests may walk without cross- 
ing the dancing floor, and above this promenade are boxes and lodges. 

On the third floor there is a series of beautiful private banquet rooms of 
varying dimensions, so that one may choose a room suited to the number 
of guests to be entertained. 

On the twelfth floor are the Bachelors' Rooms, with gymnasium, shower 
baths and fresh and salt water baths. 

Esthetically, the salient feature of the north addition is the Clubroom 
and Buft'et, undoubtedly the most Ijeautifnl interior ever created for a com- 
fortable lounging place. It is difficult to describe the luxury of cozy corners 
built in walls paneled with rare woods and snug, big leather-seated chairs in 
which one enjoys the warmth thrown from burning logs in the huge carven 
Italian fireplace. Still harder it is to suggest the color values of the inlaid 
ceiling, presenting a unique color scheme of the grays of warm colors or the 
decorative effect of the back bar modeled by one of America's foremost 
sculptors. 

In the arrangement for service one sees the results that have been gained 
by the dominant ambition of the management. By the pneumatic-tube 
service orders may be sent instantly from any floor or dining-room, and vis- 
itors' cards sent up. The service pantries on every other floor (furnished 
with ovens and refrigerators) insure prompt and satisfactory service to every 
room. The hotel maintains under its roof its own electric and cold storage 
plant, its tailor-shop with valet service, its own laundry, etc. All water is 
filtered, and the air filtered, heated and washed, and a new supply provided 
to the entire hotel every ten minutes without causing a draught. In- a perfect 
system of pumps and exhaust pipes. 

Briefly, there is no finer interpretation of the art of public hospitality in 
the United States to-day, than is presented by the completed three-winged 
St. Francis, which, with over 800 guest rooms, has the largest capacity of 
anv hotel on the Pacific Coast. 



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Cafe of the Hotel St. Francis, inspirerl !>y the famous r&om in the Chateau de Brissac. 



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THE H;10 trip of the H. M. M. 1',. A. 




The Cciver o( the Complimentary Banquet tendered to the H. M. M. B. A. at tlie 
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April 20, 1910. 



CHAPTER XV 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th 

SAN FRANCISCO DAY AND THE GRAND BANQUET AT THE 

PALACE HOTEL 

Between a hundreil and two hundred automobiles, bearing flying 
streamers, Hned up on Union Square in front of Hotel St. Francis, and in 
a short time the whole of the guests were comfortably seated and the pro- 
cession gaily whirling along down Market street through the choicest resi- 
dence section to the Presidio, and through famous Golden Gate Park to the 
Cliff House, where a halt was made for a view of the Seal Rocks, and a 
visit to the Sutro Baths; then over the Ocean boulevard to Golden Gate; 
returning by another route through the great Park and the residence district 
to the Fairmont Hotel. In this ride the visitors learned to a|)preciate the 
attractions of San Francisco, and why its sons and daughters are loyal to it, 
and why the entrance to its magnificent harbor is called the Golden Gate. 

The Fairmont Luncheon 

It had been arranged by the San Francisco entertainment committee to give 
a luncheon at the Cliff House ; but owing to the size of the party it was decided 
to change the program. The}' quicklv decided that the liaronial Norman hall 
of the Fairmont Hotel, opening on the great terrace, was the only dining 
room in San Francisco large enough to accommodate the party. So, at a 
day's notice, Alanager Cooke prepared for this luncheon (a banc|uet it was), 
of 500 covers. The tables were eight-seat ; the floral decoration profuse, and 
the service faultless. It was a magnificent entertainment, entirely unex- 
pected by the visitors, since it did not even appear on the programs, and at 
its close the enthusiasm gave vent in round after round of applause. 

Several impromptu speeches were made, the one of the Rev. ^^^ A. Keefe, 
of Norwich, Conn., being especially eloquent and appropriate. The reverend 
gentlemen's speech was as much enjoyed by the minds of the guests as 
Manager Cooke's ba.iquct was by the palates. And no praise can be higher 
than that. 

The beautiful hotel was inspected, then a few hours spent in seeing 
Chinatown and other sights, before preparing for the other great events of 
the day, the Mandarin banquet in the Palace Hotel for the men, and the 
theater party and supper at the St. Francis for the ladies. 



330 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

Mandarin Banquet at Palace Hotel 

The ticket of admission for the Mandarin banquet at the Palace Hotel 
was a red card in a red envelope with a red band for a fastener, all with 
Chinese inscriptions. This was the keynote to the whole affair. The idea 
that the Chinese motif be followed at the banquet was suggested \)y Mr. E. 
de Wolfe, of Hotel Granada, the chairman of the banquet committee. L!ut in 
the working out of the details Mr. de Wolfe and his assistants showed nothing 
less than genius. The result was simply epoch forming. It revealed the 
western spirit, determined to free itself from unnecessary conventional restric- 
tions, and the daring that seizes upon old ideas, renders them available in new 
dress or conditions and modifies them to suit immediate needs. \\'e all confess 
that Japan and China are essentially artistic in some features — even above our- 
selves. But how to modify the art of China to meet the needs of the most exact- 
ing body of banquet connoisseurs in .\merica was artistic achievement that 
might have daunted the spirit of anyone but a genius or a westerner. Both 
these elements combined in one man made daunting impossible. Mr. de \\'olfe 
called upon Carl Rosa, a scene-painter, decorator and artist of considerable 
merit, whose connections with the Chinese enabled him not only to secure 
real accessories, but to follow in spirit the true Chinese idea. He secured 
furniture, table decorations — everything in fact — that was necessary, painted 
the scenerv, fifty-six distinct pieces, hung the walls with priceless Chinese 
tapestries and embroideries, swathed the ceiling in netting, completely hid 
the massive glass chandeliers and disguised them with appropriate ornamen- 
tation, suspended Chinese lanterns everywhere, provided at one end of the 
room a faithful presentation of a portion of Chinatown, with houses, 
balconied and decorated in pure Chinese fashion, arranged a proper Chinese 
stage for the singing, Chinese acting and other events, made an entrance to 
the banquet room over a Chinese bridge, over llowing water and altogether 
carried out the motif artistically throughout. Perhaps there is that in the 
de Wolfe blood that enables one to do these things for Mr. de Wolfe's sister. 
Miss Elsie de Wolfe is as well known in Xew York as in San Francisco for 
her marvelous genius in the decorative field. 

The result was as much of a surprise to the San Francisco and other 
California guests familiar with Chinatown in all its most artistic phases, as 
it was to our eastern guests. 

I have described the general effect. The special artistic design was a 
mandarin's garden, and all the details were worked out perfectly. 

The table decorations were in form of Chinese cymbals, trumpets, flutes 
and other instruments of music. Chinese flags, bouquets of peacock feathers 
and of Chinese lilies, dwarf trees trimmed to resemble birds and animals, 
and pagodas and temnles done in sugar. 

The menu card was in form of a book of twenty-eight pages, tied with a 
golden cord, and printed in Chinese, English and French. It presented many 
clever sketches of San Francisco, old and new: of the '49ers ; of Chinese 
life; and throughout was interspersed with words of welcome. Some of 




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332 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

these pages and the menu are rcprothicecl elsewhere, the latter both in the 
Chinese characters and in French. 

The fish course was announced with a procession of illuminated tish, each 
fish about ten feet long and carried by a Chinaman. The sherbert was 
served in a cup of ice with maidenhair ferns frozen into the ice, and the cup 
set on a gold mat covered with sprays of the ferns. The ice cream was in 
form of a Chinaman sitting in a sugar basket and holding up an undirella. 

Here is what Henry J. Bohn said of this banquet : 

"Really and truly, I would like to escape the task of trying to tell anything 
about this Oriental banquet, the greatest gastronomic feast that has ever been 
placed before H. ]\I. M. B. A. people. We have probably had as good things 
lo eat and drink at other bant|uets during the past thirty years, but never 
before have we had any such a thing upon which to feast our eyes and ears. 
For some days we have been in possession of a big red envelope enclosing a 
Chinese program. \\'e haven't been able to guess what it meant or what it was 
good for any more than we surmised what was coming wdien we looked at that 
smoker coupon ticket, but to-night we have to present it as we cross a Chinese 
bridge into the dining room. As we step into this room we behold a scene 
which the imagination can not picture, and first a thousand big and little illum- 
inated lanterns are suspended from the ceiling. At one end of the room there 
is a Chinese theater, and in the bo.xes are seated mandarins and real Chinese 
ladies of fashion. In and out and over and across the stage run scores of 
prettily dressed Chinese children, and a Chinese orchestra is performing music 
that we do not believe we will ever hear either in heaven or the other place, 
but it is all a part of the program. As we sit down Chinese girls pass along 
back of us and distribute flowers to us, and literally and truly it is China in 
front of us, China back of us, China to right of us and China to left of us. We 
doubt indeed if in Pekin or any other place in the Celestial empire there ever 
was a banquet tendered that had more of the glitter and color ami art and 
picturesqueness of Orientalism than we behold as we feast this night on the 
best that the chef and the maitre d'hotel of the great Palace Hotel can produce. 
If it was going across the continent to be a participant in the smoker last night, 
it is worth crossing two continents to see what we see to-night. You know 
what kind of a fix the boy is in when he is trying to watch a three-ring circus. 
This dining room was worse than a six-ring circus, for there is not only some- 
thing novel to us in every square foot of the ceiling and walls, but perform- 
ances and all over our tables, where is a wealth of every conceivable sort of 
Chinese art ware, while our ears are listening to beautiful songs and music." 

At the front of the stage was a Chinese band. Solemn and dignified with 
their big straw hats and grim faces, the bandsmen made a fitting foil for a 
score of the cutest little Chinese girls that ever roamed away from Chinatown. 

It was the little Chinese maidens that called straight to the hearts of the 
visitors. They were admired during the first courses, they were loved when 
the entrees appeared and then they grouped on the stage and sang "My 
Countrv 'Tis of Thee." 



TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 333 

As the orchestra above the stage played the first bars of the anthem, 
every man in the hall leaped to his feet and stood silently. Then the sweet 
yonng voices, terribly nervous at first, I)ut gaining courage as they went on, 
wanflered out into the big room in the words of the one song that appeals to 
the very foundation of American manhood. 

Absolute silence was preserved until the singing was finished, and then 
|janflemonium rushed from confinement. Everybod}- cheered and waved anv- 
thing they could lay hands on, napkins, flowers and even chairs. But that 
was merely a prelude to the silver shower. Men stood on chairs so as to get 
a good view of the stage, and threw money as fast as thev could take it from 
their pockets and get change. 

It \\as a great sight. Laughing little Chinese girls, shrieking with the 
joy of it all. tumbled over each other in their eagerness to pick up the coins 
that were showering around them. 

They giggled and fought and then giggled again and finally ran in all 
directions to their smiling mothers, wlm were watching it all, to shower their 
silver gatherings in the motherly laps. 

Then one of the Easterners took a laughing little Chinese girl in his arms 
and carried her around the room. She was a princess, a fairy, a recipient of 
homage and a bestower of smiling favors. That started it, and all thoughts 
of the next course were forgotten in the general rush to claim a dainty Httle 
Chinese partner. 

When the sedate mothers of all the charming little people rose and said 
that it was time to go home there was a loud sigh. Stolid men frcjm the 
East who have done nothing Init worry aliout what other people's children 
were going to do in their hotels for the last twenty-five years objected. 
They wanted to adopt the kiddies, they would not let them go, and the final 
l)arting \vas almost heartbreaking. 



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'HIGH I wish to remark,— 
And my language is plain,— 
That for ways that are dark, 
And for tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is 

peculiar, — 
Which the same I would 

rise to explain. 
Ah Sin was his name. 
And I shall not deny 
In regard to the same 
What that name might 

imply; 
But his smile it was pensive 

and child-like 
As I frequent remarked to 

BiU Nye. 

— Bret Harte 



A Page from the Menu of Banquet tendered the H. M. M. B. A., Palace Hotel, 
San Francisco, California, April 20, 1910. 



TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 

CRESTA BLANCA WINES 

Only those of the H. M. M. 1'.. A. who do m.it drink wine are unfamiliar 
with the wines hearinsj the abo\-e name. The Cresta Blanca brands were 
supplied with generous abundance and used throughout the whole western 
half of the trip. They were served at all the hotels with the special luncheons, 
dinners and baiKjuets. and the ice bo.xes of the special trains were lavishly 
furnished. The president and manager of the Wetniore-Bowen Company. 
Mr. Clarence J. W'etmore, is the founder of the business. He established the 




lOntrance to Wine Cellar.s. Cresta Blanca. Cal. 

Cresta Blanca \'ineyard in 1880. It is located at the mouth of the Arroya del 
Valle near Livermore, Alameda count}-. California, and comprises one square 
mile of diversified hill and valley land, all of which is adapted to grape culture. 
The tract was selected by reason of its peculiarly advantageous soil as well as 
the climatic conditions of the region, both of which are most favorable to 
the growing in full perfection of the several varieties of grapes from which 
the great wines of Europe are made. 

Here were planted cuttings from the vines of world-renowned h'rench 
vineyards, and here to-day those vines most worthily uphold the high 
standard of the i)arent stock. 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

Great Cresta Blanca Caves 

It is said that half the battle in successful wine making is its proper preser- 
vation and treatment during the aging period, or in other words, the proper 
care of the wine from the hour it leaves the cellars, bottled and ready for the 
table, years later. To secure desired results an unvarying temperature is 
absolutely necessary. There must be no fluctuating thermometer in the aging 
cellars — no violent changes from summer heat to winter cold. 

In order to insure uniform temperature of about 60° F. throughout all 
seasons, the Cresta Blanca wines are stored in 9 real vaidts or tunnels, 
bored in the solid rock at a depth of two hundred feet below the surface. 
There are 1,000 feet of these vaults. In these rocky caverns, far removed 
from the varying upper world, the wine rests quietly during the years of 
the aging period, acquiring with each successive season the rare delicacy of 
development which comes only with perfect handling and ideal conditions. 
Time Necessary for Perfection 

Xature moves slowly, mysteriously, surely. The delightful bouquet and 
flavor which she imparts to the perfect wine may be had from no other source. 
Xo man e\er made an old anfl finished wine from a young and immature one. 
The years alone perform that miracle. 

To produce a good wine the vintuer must devote to it infinite care and 
3"cars of time. This is nature's method — the expensive method — the Cresta 
Blanca Method. 

The first wine made was in the year 1886, and it received a gold medal at 
the Paris Exposition in 1889. This was the first gold medal ever given to an 
American made wine. Since that time twenty gold medals and one grand 
prize have been awarded the Wetmrire-Iiowen Co., for the high standard of 
their product. 

Mr. Clarence J. \\'etmore is in complete charge of the producing depart- 
ment: he is an adept and understands tlie most minute detail of every phase 
of wine production. Every detail from the pruning of the vine to the aging 
of the perfected wine is executed under his personal supervision. 

The secret of the great success of the Cresta Blanca wines is the careful 
manner in which they are made and the proper temperature in which they 
are aged. 

It is now universally conceded that the Cresta Blanca wines equal those 
of the best known vineyards of the world, and they are rapidly finding their 
wav to the most exclusive wine cellars of America. In Boston, Xew York, 
Washington, Philadelphia. P.altimore and Chicago they are regularly used 
and the Eastern demand is constantly increasing. They are never sold in 
bulk. They are carefully liottled under the personal supervision of the 
makers. Every opportunity is afforded to hotelmen throughout the country 
to give them the fullest trial, and correspondence with those interested is 
respectfullv solicited. Communications addressed to the W'etmore-Bowen 
Co., 42 Davis street. San T'rancisco. Cal., will receive prompt and satisfactory 
attention. 



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tND oh! when others 
take our place, 

And Earth's green 
curtain hides our 
face, 

Ere on the stage, so 
silent now. 

The last new hero 
makes his bow: 

So may our deeds, 
recalled once more 

In Memory's sweet 
but brief encore, 

Down all the circling 
ages run, 

With the world's plau- 
dit of "well done!" 

— Bret Harte 



A I'age fiom the Menu of Uanciuet tendered the H. M. M. B. A., Palace Hotel, 
.San Francisco, California. April 20, 1910. 



330 THE I'AO TRIP OF THE H. AI. M. B. A. 

After the Chinese cliarmers had left there was some singing b^' Louise 
Brehany. a Xew York singer with a charm of manner and voice that soon 
made the Isanqueters forget their recent loss. "Annie Laurie" and other old 
ballads she sang and then slipped into a catching lilt about a see-saw. The 
chorus was taken up by the diners and all the singer hatl to do was wave her 
arms in time to the music. 

Real Chinese actors and singers came on the stage and rendered 
selections from their repertoires, and great fun was caused by the appear- 
ance of the genuine Chinese processional dragon, with tremendous head, 
massive jaws, and T. R. teeth, carried by forty or fifty Chinamen, all expert 
at the business, wdio came threatening ever}-bo(l_\- in the hall. The Chinese 
band made an awful din, some hero or other appeared and fought with the 
monster, conquering and slaying him, to the manifest comfort and relief of 
man\- of the Eastern guests, wh..), after the generous hospitality in the lic|uid 
line of the past daj-s had begun tD wc.mder if this dragon might not mean 
something really serious. 

To attempt to describe the food of the bancpiet and its service would be 
impossible. The guests present, constituted perhaps one of the most critical 
bodies of experts in America. They were absolutely unanimous in what 
might seem extravagant praise, if their words were quoted. But no words 
could be extravagant. Maitre d'hotel Reiter surpassed himself. Xo gath- 
ering of monarchs of old world, of ancient or modern times e\er had such a 
gastronomic feast provided to them, or served with such perfection. Each 
separate article was served to each individual at almost precisely the same 
instant, and all so piping hot that a few moments of contemplation of the 
dishes was essential to comfort before the palate was tickled. Everyone 
agreed that it was the most wonderful thing that was ever seen. One 
enthusiast said: "I thought the \\'aldorf made a high mark three years 
ago, but believe me, this is something that will live in the hearts of all 
of us." 

The post-prandial portion of the banquet was of a high ortler. Seated at 
the speakers" table, besides Chairman Woods and Toastmaster Kirkpatrick, 
were E. S. de Wolfe, Charles Cooke, George Parker, J. K. Blatchford, J. S. 
]\Iitchell, George P. Knight, Mayor JNIcCarthy, Governor Gillett, H. F. 
Michael, F. Van Orman, E. I\L Tierney, A. Fred Way, O. Rich, K. Harris 
and Gus Larm. 

When the black coflee was on the table the chairman, James \\'oo(ls, 
president of the San Francisco Hotel Men's Association, in his introductory 
remarks, said that while the Southern California hotelmen measure up with 
the best in the world, San Francisco asks no odds from Los Angeles in one 
respect at least, and that is in the esteem and atTection this city entertains 
for the members of the Hotel Men's Association and its new president, John 
S. Mitchell. He added that he could not let the occasion pass without 
expressing his high appreciation of the splendid work of the committee 
having the present entertainment in charge. It was a magnificent program. 
He then introduced as toastmaster, Colonel J. C. Kirkpatrick, the most noted, 
the most efficient and the most successful hotel director in the known world. 



TO CALIl-UKXIA AND THE PACIFIC CUAST 337 

When Colonel Kirkpatrick arose he was greeted with loud and long 
continued cheering. Me addressed his hearers as "Beloved brethren." which 
was received in all scriunsncss because they knew that he meant it. He 
characterized the hotelmen as the great caretakers of the great throng, the 
careful watchers of the great world when away from home, "and we are 
glad to have you with us." he added, "l-'ourteen vears ago vou assembled 
on the Pacific Coast and we did what we could to entertain you, and we 
know that you have not forgotten that experience. We are glad to have you 
with lis t(i-night. on this western shore — 1 shall not say anything about from 
the Rockies to the sea. but just 'this western shore." From here to where 
you live there is a well-marked trail. When the sun rises in the east the 
shadow of your tall storiecl Iniildings can be seen b\' us leading to ^'Our 
home. And wdien you go home and in the evening when you look toward 
the west and see the ruddy glow in the sky. you will know that it is the 
reflection of the warmth oi feeling that we ha\'e for you and all other good 
people, ^c3u will know, also, that here when the sun arrives we receive 
him with true hotelman's hospitality, that we give him a bath, wash his face, 
so that he ma\' cume up fresh and smiling te") you in the morning." 

Governor Gillett Speaks 

This epiaint poetical conceit evoked great applause. Colonel Kirkpatrick 
then introduceil Cjovernor Gillett. 

The Governor was received with an ovation that was highly flattering. 
Fie causeel a ripple of smiles and a re)inifl of applause when he addresseel 
his hearers as "F'ellow Mandarins" in reminiscence of the ( )riental enter- 
tainment which they had enjoyed. He began by saving that they were no 
strangers to California, for they had registered in California hotels as hotel- 
men eight or ten days ago ami had sampled the high i|uality of the 
caraxansaries of Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and other leading 
cities of this Golden State. "This is an apt name." he added, "for in the 
southland the}- four.el the golden orange groves, in the central part they 
were greeted with the golden glor}- of the Califurnia poppy, and here they 
had the historic vi;ijn of the ("lolclen Gate and the gold nuggets of the north. 
The}- had certainly seen some ])art of this great State — not all of it — for it 
was greater than they coulil traverse in the time allotted them, but 
sufficient to in-ipress them with its extent, its magnificent scenery and 
resources and its incomparable hotels. 

The Governor then led up to the theme of the Panama Exposition being 
held in San Francisco in 191.^. Ijv inviting the visitors to hold their next 
convention in San Francisco when its Panan-ia Exposition was open for the 
visitors of the world and industrial, scientific and art displa}-s from every 
country under the sun. 

His auditors rose and cheered, encouraging Governor (nllett to pursue 
his subject. This he did by dwelling upon the canal as a might}- achieve- 
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338 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

how it would be a great trafific highway for the nation. To commemorate 
its completion and its signiiicance a great exposition should be held and San 
Francisco was the one place where it should and must be held. 

"Tell your friends about us and our forthcoming exposition. Come when 
It is read}' and bring all your friends with you," shouted the Governor. 

"We will," was the reply all over the banquet hall. 

This subject was also ably commented upon by Mayor McCarthy, who 
followed, welcoming the visitors to the greatest city on the Pacific Coast. 
He said that he had traveled o\-er many parts of the United States ami had 
always found the hotelmen the princes of entertainers. 

John S. i\Iitchell told how encouraged he is with the number of pledges 
to get new members. "You are doing a great kindness to ask an}- eligible 
man to become a member. . . . To the member who secures the largest 
number of new members the coming year I will present a loving cup ; and 
to the member securing the second largest number, a smaller loving cup. 
. The Pacific Coast Special Train will go to the Boston convention 
next year." 

M. F. Michael toasted The Hotel Men's Social Outing and Dining 
.Association: the grandest association on earth. He said: "Your coat of 
arms should be a snipe, rampant, with two plumbers. They have a nerve 
which reaches the length of their lull, and your motto should be Charge, 
Chester, Charge." 

E. M. Tierney, of New York, referring to the glorious spectacle here 
presented, said: "As a hotelman who has seen most of the great ban(|uefs 
that have been given in America in the last twenty-five years, this one 
(without contrast with any on the way here) surpasses anything I have 
heretofore experienced. . . . You have a golden hospitality. . . . We 
of the Xew York delegation have been surprised all along the line ; seeing 
the beautiful hotels of Xew Orleans, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and up the 
coast, and here in San I-"rancisco to-day are three of the most magnificent 
hotels it has been my privilege to view in my lifetime." 

Henry J. Bohn, some weeks after the event, wrote an article upon its 
significance in "The Hotel \\'orld," which is worthy of preservation. Here 
it is entire : : 

THE GREAT ORIENTAL BANQUET 

The Most Unique and Costly Dinner Ever Devised for the 

H. M. M. B. A. 

Any great gastronomic event shouUl be of interest to hotelmen, but 
when that even relates strictly to hotel people, both as hosts and guests, 
then it is of special importance to the hotel fraternity. 

Modern dinner giving does not consist merely of well cooked foods and 
rare wines. It means something much higher and finer. It means enter- 
tainment of the mind and heart, appeal not only to the digestive orgau'^, but 
to the eye and ear and the higher senses of culture. 



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We people to the eastward have heard much in the past thirty years 
about the intense opposition and bitter feeling toward the Chinese on the 
Pacific Coast. We remember Sand Lot Kearney, the sand-dune orator. 
Therefore the great "oriental banquet" tendered to the H. M. M. B. A. men 
at the Palace Hotel was not only a never-to-be-forgotten feast for those 
present, but it awakenetl in us another train of thought. To give a Mandarin 
banquet was in itself a compliment to the Chinese. To turn the magnificent 
banquet room of the hotel into a Mandarin garden, decorated with a wealth 
of Chinese articles of art, and enlivened with not only the only Chinese 
actress in America but with a Chinese theater and thirty pretty Chinese 
children with their mothers, with a full Chinese orchestra and with a bill of 
fare as distinctively Chinese as the rest of the function, all aided and abetted 
by the wealthy Chinese merchants of San Francisco, meant an entente 
cordiale between the two races in San Francisco that has never been 
evidenced by the American press. That it was an event of great local 
importance was proved by the attention given it by the daily papers of 
San Francisco. Alonths ago we had heard in the east that the hotelmen 
of the Phoenix City were going to do something to us and in two great 
functions they certainly did it. The $10,000 that it was stated was spent 
upon this dinner does not adequately represent it, for the greatest Chinese 
merchant of the city had loaned for this occasion articles of art with which 
to decorate the tables that represented a vast fortune. 

One of the gentlemen who had a hand in the preparation of this feast 
has kindly furnished the "Hotel World" on request with a few possibly 
forgotten points. The card of admission of red Chinese paper in a red 
envelope was unique and a charming souvenir. A striking feature was when 
the entire room was darkened, showing only the twinkling lights in the 
pagodas and lanterns, and just before the frogs' legs were served came in the 
big, tall, stately Chinese actors in Chinese costume and carried in a 
procession around the room illuminated fish six feet long, a most striking 
spectable. The Chinese lady who danced and acted was the only Chinese 
actress in the United States. The approach to the banquet room over a 
bridge was all done in real wistaria and the lanterns with the water elTect 
underneath was strikingly pretty. At the entranceway stood two tall China- 
men handing out the "Menu of Welcome" as the guests passed in. Over 
and about and through all were a thousand Chinese things, musical instru- 
ments, dragons, peacock feathers, candlesticks, yellow ribbons, a vast 
assemblage of novel and pretty things all brought from Chinatown. Only 
those who were present can know the enthusiasm of the hour when the 
little Chinese girls sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," when the guests 
showered the stage for them with silver coin, when Louise Brehany, the 
charming vocalist, sang "Annie Laurie" and finally when James Woods, 
president of the local hotel association, rapped for order and introduced 
Colonel Kirkpatrick as toastmaster, an office he filled so wittily and charm- 
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340 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. :\I. M. B. A. 

Governor Gillett. Mayor McCarthy. John S. ^litchell. Hon. George A. Knight 
and E. M. Tierney. 

It would be unjust not to say a word of credit about the men wlio 
carried out the details of this great function. President Woods and Colonel 
Kirkpatrick turned it over to E. S. de A\'olfe as chairman of the banquet 
committee, and before he got through with it he felt nigh submerged, as 
the proposition expanded and expanded. For davs and nights he worked 
incessant!}- — the greatest job of his life — but he had able assistants. The 
chef of the Palace is Ernest Arbogast and the maitre d'hotel is Victor Reiter, 
and in the culinary end they were the two captains with scores of able 
lieutenants in the kitchen, for whoever heard of serving to over three 
hundred men at a dinner "Xoisettes d'Agneau, sous Cloche, Rachel," that is, 
under glass! who was the scenic artist, and to Otto Schiller, who arranged 
the children and the Chinese fish and decorations ; to Mr. Stein, the florist, 
who did all the beautiful and magical table decorations with his own hands. 
Mr. Rich of the Palace and Mr. \Mlson of the St. Francis also gave their 
counsel, advice and original ideas and proved able assistants. All these 
gentlemen, headed by Mr. De ^^'olfe, were delighted that the banquet wen? 
off without a single hitch and they feel repaid for their arduous labor in 
the charming letters they have received. 

Aluch credit was due to the Schiller Carnival Company, which did 
the Chinese stunts with the thirty Chinese children; and to Carl Rosa, who 
painted the scenery and provided all the table and wall decorations, lanterns, 
furniture etc.. from Chinatown. 

The menu card for this remarkable dinner was the most elaborate altair 
ever devised for the association. It was the work of .\rtist Randall P>orough, 
of the Palace Hotel advertising departn.ient. C)n the title page was a plate 
Oyi^Oy^ inches in size, printed in yellow, red, blue and green, of which plate 
a reduced engraving appears on our title page. The first page within the 
cover was an engraving of a Chinese dragon and the sun, with a Chinese 
inscription. The next page bears in carmine the symbol of the sun without 
anv lettering, only a large circular red spot. Next follo\\-ing was the page 
of dedication, reading: '"Banquet in honor of the Hotel Men's Mutual 
Benefit Association tendered by the San Francisco Hotel Glen's Association, 
Palace Hotel, \\'ednesday evening, the 2Cth of April, 1910," appearing on a 
bulletin board held in ])lace by the dragon, and on either side of this 
appeared the same words in carmine Chinese symbols. Xe.xt follows a page 
covered with Chinese lettering: then a half-tone engraving of San Francisco, 
the portrait taken from the middle of the bay. Then follows in regular 
order a half dozen leaves, two placer mining scenes with a poem by Bret 
Harte entitled the "Mountain Heartsease": a Chinese shi])ping scene; a 
half-tone plate of San Francisco in the sixties with a few descriptive words, 
closing with: "Bells of the Past, whose long forgotten music still fills the 
wide expanse, tingeing the somber twilight of the Present with color of 



TO CALIFORXIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 341 

roses"; a Chinese scene; a lialf-tone plate of a photograph from the Flood 
IJuilding looking down Market street; the menu entirely in Chinese char- 
acters and the menu in English, as published in the "Hotel \\^orld" last 
week ; a welcome to the visitors, appearing in Chinese characters ; a plate 
showing Union Square, the heart of San Francisco, and the George Dewey 
naval monument; another Chinese scene; "The New San F'rancisco," in 
a half-tone plate with a poem by ISret Harte, which opens with the words: 
"Serene, indifferent of Fate, Thou sittest at the Western Gate." and closing 
with: "Thou drawest all things, great and small, to Thee, beside the 
\\'estern (Jate": another Chinese scene and then the page with the first 
one of the plates here reproduced ; an engraving of the symbolic and much 
revered peacock feathers, together with burning incense sticks, forming a 
suggestive and sentimental picture; half-tone plate of "The Chinese Lily 
Seller" ; engraving in color of Chinese art articles as they appeared on the 
tables; another plate as here reproduced, showing H. M. M. B. A. ladies 
shopping in the Chinese district. 



THURSDAY, APRIL 21 / 

The party were guests of the California Wine Association for a steam- 
ship excursion around San Francisco Bay, and a tour of inspection of 
VVinehaven, where are located their principal cellars. They were given 
a luncheon at the company's hotel. In the tour of the establishment 
we were shown the wine presses and the fermenting \-ats. Superintend- 
ent S. ISerndt explained the process of making the wine, and what is 
done W4th the by-products, as, converting the sediment in the fermenting 
tanks into cream of tartar for baking powder ; getting tannin from the seeds, 
brandy from the skins, etc. Then he led us through the million-dollar 
storage houses where ten million gallons of wine are aging. The wine is 
first stored in casks of 30,000 gallon capacity for refining, and is kept four 
years in the wood. The method of blending or marrying was explained. 
"The wine is kept one year in the bottle before it is ripe, and is at its 
best after eight years, and does not improve after that time," said Mr. 
Berndt. He showed us the method of keeping track of the products of the 
diilerent vineyards and how the different kinds of grape wines are treated. 
He also showed us the bottle-filling, capping, labeling and carbonating 
machinery in operation ; and he explained the treatment of the non-alcoholic 
wine specialized by the California Wine Association; how it is sterilized, 
and its virtues when taken for the grape cure. He also showed the methods 
of converting still wines into imitation champagnes, and demonstrated the 
careful handling of the choice ^•intage wines. 

"The California \Mne Association," said Walter A. Dinmore of the Calva 
Distributing Co., "has $10,000,000 invested in the industry, with an annual 
production from fifty winery plants, throughout the grape growing districts^ 
of 30,000,000 gallons of wine." 




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CHAPTER XVI 

HOMEWARD BOUND 

The New York and Xew England specials retained their identity until 
the retnrn trip was completed, the one returning to Xew York, the other to 
Boston. 

The Mid-\\'est and Chicago delegation split into two parties at San 
Francisco, one returning by way of Salt Lake, the other going north to 
Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Victoria, \'anc()U\er, and home by way of 
Winnipeg and St. Paul. Mr. John \\'illey of the "Hotel Monthly," returned 
with the Mid-West delegation, by way of Salt Lake City, and to him we 
owe the following" account : 

"At Reno, Xev., H. J. Gosse, of the Riverside Hotel, was at the depot 
with a mess of fresh caught trout, which he put onto the dining car for 
our use, and for which he received hearty thanks. 

"At Salt Lake City, I'reil Wcy, who came with the party, took us in 
charge. He gave us an automobile ride, a luncheon (l^anquet) at the \Mlson 
Hotel (menu in another column), a trip by special train to Saltair, and 
opportunity for a swim in Salt Lake. He also arranged for a special organ 
recital in the Mormon Tabernacle by Prof. John McClellan, said to be the 
greatest organist in the world. The organ is the largest in America. The 
organist in his playing produced soumls and melodies such as none of 
the audience had ever before heard come from an instrument of music. He 
produced the sweetest sounds, clear and low, yet filling the vast hall ; and 
deep and sonorous, as when thunder rolls in deafening roar. He imitated 
the viola, the bass viol, the trombone, the flute in its different forms ; he 
brought out from his one instrument the rounded music of a great orchestra. 
As he plaved we heard birds sing, the rich contralto voice of a prima doiuia. 
a solo by Caruso, a duet, a (juartet, a bo.\ tremolo and a mighty chorus of 
human voices. How he did it none of us could tell. It was as if an orchestra 
and t!ie soloists and the chorus were actually there. C)nly the hand of a 
wizard, it would seem, could produce such wonderful sounds, such harmony, 
such range from the very lowest to the very highest concei\able notes ; 
such music as sounded nearest to heavenl\- that mortal ears will ever hear. 
This recital alone was well worth the long journey to Salt Lake to hear. 
Prof. McClellan is Mormon born and a graduate of Ann Arbor L'niversity. 

"The daylight ride thmngh the Rocky Mountains from Glenwood Springs 
over the Tennessee Pass to Colorado Springs by Denver & Rio Grande 
Railroad was greatly enjoyed. The party hiund the mountains snow capped, 
the streams rushing, and the Grand Canon of the Arkansas River, ivith its 
hanging bridge, an awe-insiiiring sight. 



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"^^'e were cleverly entertained at the Antlers in Colorado Springs, also 
with a luncheon at the Cliff Mouse in Manitou, and we saw the canons, the 
Garden of the (!ods, and other sights around about Pike's Peak. 

"In Denver the Mid-West delegation was entertained by Sam Button 
of the Albany Hotel with an automobile ride round about the city, a \'isit 
to the parks, the museum, the auditorium, and other places of interest. lie 
loaded us with souvenirs, and bid us Godspeed to our respective hones." 

For the experiences of the other section of the Chicago delegaton we 
are indebted to Henry J. Bohn of "Hotel World." He wrote as folk ws : 

"About fifty of our Chicago-AIid-West delegation is in special cars 
attached to the regular evening train on the Mount Shasta route bound 
northward for the great Xorthwest. 

"And now we stop at Shasta Springs, near which is the hotel run 1)\- Airs. 
Morris of Hotel Victoria, San Francisco, and chairman of the women's 
reception committee, ^^'e get our fill of that incomparable natural sparkling 
soda water. It is an interesting ride. The crude mining towns, the new 
settlements in the agricultural valleys, all interest us 'tenderfeet.' 

"Another night's ride and Saturdaj- morning the early risers wake up at 
about the time we reach Salem, Oregon. Brother Johnston of our party, 
stepping onto the platform, is made the recipient on behalf of our H, M. 
M. B. A. delegation of a huge bouquet of flowers, tied with great red, white 
and blue ribbons, presented with the compliments of the Salem Board of 
Trade. And who was guilt}- of bringing this about? Miss Florine B. Hatch, 
now in municipal employ at Salem, but formerly a secretary of E. M. Statler, 
of the Hotel Statler, lUiffalo, and she knew all about the hotel folks and the 
H. M. M. B. A. She comes up to the banquet tendered us at Portland this 
evening, and brings a sure-enough invitation from the capital city for the 
H. M. M. B. A. to hold an annual meeting at Salem as soon as possible! 

"But here we are arrived at Portland! Here is H. C. Bowers, Phil 
Metschan, Jr., Theo. Krtise, M. C. Dickinson, representing the Portland 
Hotel Men's Association, and other citizens, who meet us with autos and 
take us to the hotels. It is a warm welcome indeed that we get from these 
hotelmen and the city, and we are made to feel as big as if we were the 
whole H. M. M. B. .\. ! 

Breakfast over and we become the guests of the hotel association and 
automobile club, of which M. C. Dickinson, the president of the Oregon 
Hotel Association, is also ])resident, and are taken on a forty-mile auto 
drive, to the grounds of the club; to the aviation field, where we see both 
local and foreign flying machines, returning to the Commercial Club, where 
we are given a com])limentary luncheon at 1 :30, followed by address of 
welcome by President Beckwith, and responded to by members of our dele- 
gation. At 3:30 special trolley cars are in waiting, and we are taken to the 
pleasant resort on Council Crest, where a splendid view of the city and 
surrounding country is obtained. An hour is ]nit in visiting the roof garden 
of the Nortania, where we are entertained by the proprietress, Mrs. Hogue, 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 847 

and Manager Rowley, after which the Oregon. Imperial and Perkins Hotels 
are visited. 

Owing to the seniority of the hotel and its manager in Portland hotel 
aftairs, and the excellent facilities of the hotel for the purpose, the enter- 
tainment committee selected the Portland Hotel as the place for holding 
both the banquets for the gentlemen and the ladies, tendered by the Portland 
Hotel Association to the visiting hotel people. This Portland men's banquet 
is a most elaborate affair, choice, unique, artistic, elaborate, and the ladies' 
dinner is c|uite as exquisite. The table is set in a square, the diners all 
seated on the outside, while the center, about which the one hundred gen- 
tlemen are grouped, is filled with plants and flowers, a veritable park. All 
around the room are most elaborate floral decorations, formed of roses and 
other flowers. From the purely artistic standpoint some of our party declare 
it the finest dinner of the trip so far. The entertainment is also unique. A 
double-quartette of "cowboys" furnish the singing and it is good. The 
wine is served by IXIephistopheles and his satellites, all clad in the brightest 
carmine and well equipped with horns. Then there is a band of Indians 
that scampers around the tables, giving their war-whoops, but first of all 
should have been mentioned a bunch of pretty Japanese girls, which passes 
around the big table and gives to each guest a boutonniere. There is a 
succession of such innovations, and as the two banquets are served on the 
same floor, the music and entertainment and novel wine service alternates 
between the two rooms, until the coffee is reached on the men's menu, when 
the ladies are escorted to the men's banc|utt room to listen to the speeches. 
The menu card is handsomely embossed with 'H. M. M. B. A.' in gold, and 
bears a hand-painted 'Portland Rose' emblematic of the 'City of Roses.' 
The dedication was engraved: "I'anquet given to the members of the Hotel 
Men's ^Mutual Benefit Association, visiting Portland. April twenty-third, 
nineteen hundred and ten.' The banquet committee is H. C. Bowers, chair- 
man. M. C. Dickinson. Phil Metschan. Jr.. and Theo. Kruse. The toast- 
master is W. D. Wheelwright, a notable orator, and the speakers. Fred 'Van 
Orman. Edgar P.. Piper. Charles C. Horton. M. C. Dickinson. A. L. Sever- 
ance and Henry J. Bohn. The ladies were served the same dinner as the 
gentlemen, the decorations pink roses with vari-colored electric lights, the 
menu card a very artistic affair, and the favors an artificial rose fan. a thing 
of beauty." 

Portland, the Gateway of the Columbia 
In a burst of enthusiastic pride the Hebrew Psalmist, viewing the city 
of Jerusalem, exclaimed: "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole 
earth, is Mount Zion." So must every citizen of Portland exclaim, and 
every stranger within her gates, when, on one of the hills overshadowing the 
city, he gazes down upon the fair panorama presented before him. For 
nature has dealt bountifully with Portland. Few cities in the world have 
a more wonderful setting, especially when it is remembered that Portland 
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five-minute service, one may easily ascend from the heart of the city in half 
an hour to one of the salient "heights" and there see for himself whether 
this high praise be justified. 

And it is interesting here to compare, by way of parenthesis, the three 
Pacific cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, in this matter of 
outlook. The two former cities each possess a scenic railway — Mount Lowe 
and Mount Tamalpais. It costs about two dollars to make the ascent of 
either. Each, of course, is longer and attains a greater height than the 
Portland electric car, but in the latter case the fare is five cents as com- 
pared with two dollars, and the scene, while very dift'erent, is as diversified 
and entrancing as one need desire. 

The view from the summit of Council Crest is one of the great views 
of the world. 

At our feet, sloping down from the tower on which we stand, is one of 
the choicest residence districts, every house occupying its commanding site 
and possessing an undisturbed outlook. Down, down, the eye travels to the 
great citv spread out to the right, to the left and before us. Through its 
heart winds the picturesque Willamette River, dividing Portland proper from 
the East Side, as East Portland is miw termed. To the left are the buildings 
left by the great fair, and beyond is the junction of the Willamette with 
the giant Columbia, whose course is clearl}- outlined further away, the 
two forming the two sides of a wide triangle. Then the eye is drawn 
irresistibly over the country be^^ond, ten, twenty, fifty and more miles away 
to the peerless snow-clad mountain jieaks of Mount Hood, Mount St. 
Helens, Three Sisters, Mount JeiTerson, Mount Adams, and, one hundred 
and forty miles away, I\Iount Rainier. 

The estimated population of I'ortland is not far from 300,000. The city 
has excellent churches, theaters, banks, schools and public buildings; its 
bridges are superior and are made to keep pace with the rapidly growing 
requirements. In its railway facilities the fact that the two great lines 
controlled by Harriman and Hill center here assures more than ordinary 
ad\-antages. Its street railway sy:tem is far ahead of that of San Francisco, 
and in that a universal system of five-cent fares and transfers to all parts 
of the city is provided, it surpasses Los Angeles. Its location makes it not 
only a railway center but a great and motlern seaport. Vessels of the 
deepest draught come and anclmr at its wharves, so that it has direct and 
speedy as well as chea]) freight and passenger coinmunication with the 
whole coast as well as the countries of the Orient. Its water supply is 
naturally superior to that of an}- city with which I am familiar in the 
civilized world, and is worthy of more than passing mention. Its main 
source of supply is ISull Run Lake, situated in the Cascade Mountains at 
an elevation of 3,500 feet above sea level and about si.xty-five miles away. 
The lake is about three miles long, nearly a mile \vide and verv deep. It 
lies seven miles northwest of Mount Hood. The deep canon, of the Sandv 
River jirfvtnts the discolored waters from the glaciers of that mountain 
striam from rvMiuing into the lake. It is sujiplied entireh' fnun unfailing 



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Nortonia Hotel, Portland, Ore. 



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springs in tlie steep, rocky slopes surrounding it on all sides, fed by water 
from melting snow and rain. The only outlet from the lake is under an 
immense mass of shattered basalt, which fills the canon at its northwest 
end. From the base of this natural dam, 350 feet below the surface of the 
lake, the water gushes forth and forms Bull Run River, a tributary of the 
Sandy, which empties into the Columbia below Troutdale. 

Where is it possible to secure a more perfect supply? And, as the city 
increases in population, this lake alone is capable of supplying all its 
needs for a thousand years to come. Already the city has voted three 
million dollars for another pipe-line, which is rapidly being constructed. 
When this is completed a population of nearly seven hundred thousand is 
provided for at the present extravagant daily usage, for as yet the city 
places no limit to the amount of water the ordinary consumer may draw 
from his faucets. Should Portland, however, grow to the million, or five, or 
ten million mark in population. Bull Run Lake will even then be adequate 
for all needs. The whole water-shed is a forest reserve and the eternal 
snows of the mountains insure a never-ceasing supply. 

Of the "back country" which makes cities prosperous, too much can not 
be said of the natural resources of Oregon. Lumber is a great asset. The 
rivers are lined with floating rafts, and Portland's annual output of lumber 
amounts to over a hundred million feet. The wheat, prunes, apples and 
cherries of Oregon are already world-famed ; and in prunes, pears, peaches, 
plums, small berries and grapes Oregon is second only to California. Wal- 
nuts also grow excellently. Columbia River salmon is known in Europe 
and in Australasia, as well as in India and South America, and Oregon wool, 
bacon, hams and dressed meats find markets throughout the whole western 
country. Swift & Company have just completed a vast packing ]ilant at a 
cost of three million dollars. 

Portland's Commercial Club, housed in its own building, with the largest 
membership, extent of quarters and scope of work of any similar organiza- 
tion in the world, distributing millions of pages of advertising and answering 
thousands of inquiries each year from all parts of the civilized world. It 
also has its own magazine, "The Pacific Monthly," one of the few locally 
issued magazines that are found on the book-stalls of the metropolis and 
every city in the Union. 

Hence as a growing, thriving, prosperous, progressive western American 
city, Portland stands as a genuine type. On the esthetic side Portland is as 
cultured and progressive as on the material side. 

One of the wisest things the leaders in esthetic culture and democratic 
art in Portland have yet done is to name and herald the fame of Portland 
as "the rose carnival city." In the local literature the city is constantly 
referred to as "the rose city." A local rose-society has been organized and 
one of the principal lawyers, ^Ir. F. X. Holman, has made rose-culture his 
hobby, writing about it, lecturing upon it, and inviting people to see what 
they themselves can do with a little care and painstaking effort. Others 
have ably seconded his efi^orts until now, during the rose-blooming period. 



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Portland is a veritable rose-garden. The result is a personal ])ride in one s 
own garden, that is felt by almost every man, woman and child in Portland ! 
Here is the secret of a city's beauty: that each individual feels a pride in 
seeing that his portion of it is as beautiful as he knows how to make it. 
and when these indi\-idual efforts can all be guided and controlled to a 
certainly artistic end. the results are pleasure-giving to all concerned. 

As a further result of the efforts of the Rose Society, an annual Rose 
Carni\'al is now held in Portland, in the month of June, which bids fair to 
rival the world-famous Santa Barbara flower festival and the Pasadena 
Tournament of Roses, which latter, being held on New Year's Dav, has 
lieen a marvelous factor in the advertising of Southern California's winter 
climate, ^\'ashing•ton's Birthday in Portland is made "Rose Planting Day," 
and thus tells the wide world that her climate in February is balmv and 
spring-like. The Rose Festival of Portland has the advantage of water as 
well as land upon wdiich to display its floral treasures. In the daytime tens 
of thousands of delighted people acclaim their jov as the beautiful, flower- 
garlanded vehicles of ever\' size and kind pass them, and then, at night, 
every sort of water craft, large and small, launches, yachts, barges, pleasure- 
boats, canoes, fairly laden with roses and other flowers, glide in silent pro- 
cession through the glorious waterway carved by the stately Willamette 
River. 

Pleasure, jiure happiness, the cultivation of the esthetic senses, the educa- 
tion of the children in civic beauty, are all combined in festivals of this kind, 
and he is a short-sighted business man who does not see the reflex actijn 
of such art cultivation upnn the commerce of a city that is wise enough 
to foster it. 

In its park system Portland has taken Time 1:)}- the forelock and alread}' 
has begun to provide for the future. It possesses about 236 acres of park 
and parkway, scattered all over the city, and is now providing a boulevard 
system to connect them all and thus make a grand, all-enil>racing system 
that can be followed from any point wherever it may be struck. In 1908 
the city voted $1,000, COO for the preparatory w'ork on this boulevard. 

Citv Park, as its name implies, is "close in" the city, and Macleary Park 
is close by. In the former are two noted statues — noted both as works of 
art and also because they have struck away from the ordinary and con- 
ventional "(general" on horseback, soldier or other reminder of war. These 
statues are McNeil's "Coming of the \\'hite Man" and that of "Sacajawea." 
the woman guide of Lewis and Clark. There is a haughty, defiant dignity 
on the face of the chief who stands with folded arms, as one of the youths 
of the tribe, surprised, alert, wondering, calls his attention tn the coming 
of the whites. It shows Mr. AlcXeil at his best, and reveals him not only a 
master of the sculptor's art. but a master interpreter of the Indian mind. 
The statue stands on a base of rough rock and perfectly harmonizes with its 
surroundings. The same may be said also of "Sacajawea." A rudely clad 
Indian matron, young, of pleasing countenance, her baby on her Ijack, her 
whole manner one of gentle kindliness and sympathy, though her rough 



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Imperial Hotel, Portland, Ore. 



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appearance betokens her one of nature's out-door children, she stands with 
outstretched hand pointing the way to the far-away western sea that Lewis 
and Clark sought to reach. How much Oregon, the great Pacific \\'est 
and the whole United States owe to the Indian Sacajawea no historian has 
yet told. This monument is a fitting beginning of the public honors that 
for the instruction of ourselves and our children we should continue to 
bestow upon her memory. 





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Floating ir.gs on the , Willamette Kner. Oregon Cu\\ (,)re. 



Closely linked with the history of Oregon is the famous Imperial Hotel — 
so closely, in fact, that no history of the State would be complete without 
this noted hostelry as a central setting. 

The Xew Imperial, "Oregon's Greatest Hotel." is a new milestone, so to 
speak, in the social, political and industrial growth of the commonwealth. 
It is the happy realization of twelve years of hotel development, during 
which time the Imperial has been the official home of governors, senators, 
financiers, and men of the highest official position in the State. Many 
important chapters of Oregon history have taken form under its historic 
roof, and so closely identified has the hotel become with the progress of th(; 
State that it has become an institution that is inseparable. 



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355 




Oregon Hotel, Poitlaiici. Ore. 



356 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

The Xew Imperial is now the largest and most modernly equipped hotel 
in the Northwest. It represents the expenditure of a million and a half 
dollars, and embodies the best architectural and technical skill in the science 
of modern hotel construction and furnishing". 

The main entrance is on Seventh street, with entrances also on 
Washington and Stark streets. The magnificently furnished arcade, known 
as "The Trail," extends from the Washington street side to Stark street. 
"The T'-ail" is finished in mahogany, terazzo, and Italian marble, and is one 
of the most delightful bits of architecture in Western hoteldom. The entire 
"Trail" is lavishly strewn with rich furnishings that harmonize with the 
general air of luxury. 

The walls of "The Trail'' are decorated with noted pictures of Oregon 
scenery. It is the consensus of opinion that some of the choicest bits of 
American scenery are found along the famous Columbia river. The pictures 
add a beautiful touch of local color. 

Rising to a height of nine stories, the hotel contains nearly 500 elegantly 
furnished rooms. All are outside rooms. There are over 100 elegant suites 
with private baths. 

The hotel is conducted on the European plan, with a beautiful modern 
grill operated under the same management. The grill has a capacity of 300 
guests, is paneled in leather and decorated with a motif in green, gold 
and purple. 

Mr. Phil Metschan, Jr.. manager of The Imperial, is recognized as the 
leading hotelman of Oregon. He has spent practically all his life in the 
business and has a lifelong record of brilliant successes. He holds the office 
of treasurer of the Oregon Hotel Association and vice-president for Oregon 
of the American Hotel Men's Protective Association. Associated with Mr. 
Metschan are his father, Phil. Metschan, Sr., and two brothers, Otto \\'. 
and A. H. Metschan, secretary and treasurer, respectively. 

^^'e now arrange for a special day car only to Tacoma, and Sunday 
morning, at 9 o'clock, we are en route again, under the escort of Mr. 
Norman and Mr. Blackwell of that city. We arrive at Tacoma at 2 :30, 
and are met by autos and also a Seattle committee, headed by "1 Silly" King, 
and. of course, we are dee-lighted. In a jift'y we are at the Tacoma, wash 
up, and then we find a tasteful dinner spread on the great \-eranda of this 
hotel, which stands on the "mountain top" of the city, from where we see 
the great Mt. Tacoma. 

After the dinner in this delightful spot, the mayor makes a speech cf 
welcome, followed by the secretar}- of the Chamlier of Commerce, a 
charming speech by William Norman, and then, of course, some of us ha\ e 
to "talk back." And we like this spot so well, and eat and talk so long, that 
we can't ride about city before we go to the boat at six o'clock. 

Mr. Bohn is modest in his reference to talking back. He, himself, is a 
good speaker, and made several excellent speeches on the trip, but those 
who heard him on all the occasions say that his Tacoma speech surpassed 
them all. Mr. Norman had made an interesting boosting speech, taking 



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Molel Wasliington, Seattle, Wash. 



3.58 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

Tacoma as his text and using each letter of the name as a suggestion for a 
theme, as T for Transportation and Terminal, A for Aggressiveness and 
Alacrity, etc. Mr. Bohn seemed to take his cue from that and told what 
Tacoma meant: That Mount Tacoma was not named after an Indian Chief, 
but that an Indian Chief was named after Mount Tacoma ; that the word 
Tacoma was not an Indian word at all, but a Japanese word; that in the 
Japanese language Tacoma — pronounced Ta-koma, with the accent on the 
first syllable — meant the topmost light, the highest light in the world, the 
morning light, the bright light, the supreme light of the universe, and of 
course the city of Tacoma stood for all that this word nuant in the rare 
combinations of meaning that the Japanese put into their words. With the 
mountain right in view and under the circumstances this speech "caught the 
crowd." 

It is a lovely ride across Puget Sound from Tacoma to Seattle, and as 
it is Sunday the boat is loaded with local pleasure seekers. As we approach 
the famous boom city of the Northwest it is dark, and the metropolis 
"sitting on her seven hills" presents a beautiful picture — the tens of 
thousands of electric lights shine brighter than the stars above. Away on 
the heights we read the big electric sign, "Hotel Washington." It seems 
very high on the hill, but we are told that the roof of this tall hotel is 
now at the altitude of what was the foundation of the big hotel that stood 
on this site. So do they level the hills in Seattle? As we land at the dock 
we land in the arms of the reception committee and with ta.xis are taken to 
our hotels. 

At Tacoma the Seattle committee handed us printed itineraries, so we 
know the program. Monday morning, April 25th. we gather at the Rainier 
Grand Hotel and take autos in charge of the committee, and are shown the 
city in a way that would satisfy even the man from Missouri. Gee ! how we 
do go up and down those hills! And away out into the wooded suburbs to 
the Country Club, where, at 1 :30, we are served with a fine luncheon. We 
return and do the residence and university districts, visit the A.-Y.-P. 
e-xposition grounds, and see the town by auto from hill to hill. 

To-night we are bancjueted at the fine Hotel Washington, and what the 
ladies particularly applaud is that for the first time during this long journey 
at an evening banquet the ladies and gentlemen dine together. It is a fine 
dinner in a fine room in a fine hotel. The bill of fare is very expensively 
gotten up, heavy cards tied with broad blue and white satin ribbons, the 
title page engraved: "Reception and banquet given to the visiting members 
of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association by the Seattle Hotel Men's 
Association, on Monday, April the twenty-fifth, one thousand nine hundred 
and ten, at the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, Wash." Another page is 
engraved with the ofificers and committees, including the names of W. J. 
Blackwell. W. G. King, Charles F. Lyons, W. G. Potts, Charles Perry, 
J. M. Lux, H. E. Kennedy. The speakers are Hon. H. C. Gill. Hon. J. L. 
Wilson, J. E. Chilberg, W. J. Blackwell, and W\ G. King is toastmaster. 
.Mter the dinner there is dancing in the ballroom. 



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360 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

The Hotel Butler, Seattle, Wash. 

The "king" among the eastward hotel boys who have gone westward in 
the past ten years is William G. King, who in his younger days was known 
as "Billy" King of A'lilwaukee. When he left the Plankinton House in the 
beer metropolis, the hotel in which he had risen from a position in the 
storeroom to that of manager, his friends thought he probably made a 
mistake, but he didn't. Mr. King assumed the management with a proprie- 
tary interest of the Hotel Butler at Seattle, and in that hotel set a new 
standard for hoteldom in the flourishing Northwest country. Since he 
opened the Butler his eastern friends have heard nothing but tales of pros- 
perity about him. He sized up conditions aright, and notwithstanding 
Seattle has been, and is, building hotels galore, they do not seem to 
materially affect the prosperity of the Hotel Butler. 

The continued growth and development of the Butler's business is due 
chiefly to three things : First, the Hotel Butler is a first-class building, as 
shown in the illustration herewith. Secondly, it is in the heart of Seattle's 
business center, at Second avenue and James. Thirdly, when it reopened 
in 1SK)3 it set a new hotel standard for the city in the matter of 
cuisine and service. Mr. King's personality and his very close 
attention to the smallest details of the management soon made the 
Butler known as one of the most carefully managed hotels on the 
Pacific coast. He had had a long and most excellent training in the famous 
Plankinton House, which had attained a national reputation for its excel- 
lence in cuisine and management. In other words, Mr. King transplanted 
the Plankinton from Milwaukee to Seattle, with an improvement in structure 
and a European system of service instead of the old American plan. 

Seattle owns its own water system. The water is brought from Cedar 
River, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, by gravitation, and is very 
soft and pure. The distance from the headworks to Seattle is twent}'-eight 
miles, and the water is carried to the city in wooden and steel pipes. The daily 
capacity of the plant is 65,000,000 gallons. The plant, besides furnishing the 
consumers with water at a very low price, is providing a source of revenue, 
which, after payirtg the operating expenses, interest and improvement, together 
with substantial payment on the original cost of the system, gives a liandsome 
surplus to the city, which, at present, is all being invested in new construction. 
The construction of a second pipe line for which bonds in the sum of $2,250,000 
were voted, was recently completed, doubling the former capacity of the plant. 

The city owns its electrical lighting plant, which furnishes light and pow er 
for municipal and other purposes. This system was opened in 1905, at an 
initial cost of $840,000, including the distributing station and equipment. On 
November 1, 1908, the investment had reached $1,694,272. Bonds to the 
amount of $800,000 were recently voted for additions and extensions. The 
estimated cost of the entire system, when completed, including extensions now 
being made, will be $2,500,000. The power is derived from the falls of Cedar 
River, 12 miles up stream from the headwnrks of the water system. The 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 361 

lighting plant saves a large portion of the sum heretofore paid for street illum- 
ination, by the taxpayers, and also, acts as a regulator of the prices charged by 
private concerns. 

There is a large fleet of steamers plying upon the waters of Puget Sound, 
with Seattle as their home port. These steamers carry freight and passengers 
to more than 200 adjacent cities, towns, villages and ports at very low rates. 
The local traffic carried on by its fleet aggregates about $25,000,000 per annum. 

The public schools of Seattle rank among the very best in the country, and 
tlie educational system in vogue stands pre-eminent for thoroughness and 
excellence. 

The University of Washington is located here, upon a beautiful site of 3.^.5 
acres, lying between Lake L^iion and Lake Washington. The University is 
free to the youth of the State, and is well provided with facilities for giving 
them a liberal education. The grounds afford the site for the Alaska-Yukon- 
Pacific Exposition. 

The City has an excellent free public library containing 102,835 volumes 
on January 1. 1909, besides a large number of magazines, periodicals, pam- 
phlets and government documents. Circulation of books for home use from 
the library in 1908 was approximately 560,000. The city has provided 
$145,923.88 for maintenance and other expenses of the library system in 1909. 

Andrew Carnegie donated the sum of $220,000 for the central building, the 
city purchased a site at a cost of $100,000 and spent about $100,000 more in 
completing and equipping the building. This central library was completed 
and thrown open to the public in December, 1906. 

Of the five branch libraries now operating, only one. the Ballard branch, is 
in a permanent Carnegie building, the branches at Fremont, Green Lake, and 
Universitv occupving rented quarters. Three permanent branch buildings are 
soon to be erected from an additional donation of $105,000 recently made by 
Mr. Carnegie for that purpose. These three buildings will be located at Green 
Lake, University and West Seattle. 

There are about 265 churches and church societies in Seattle and the 
adjoining suburl)s. representing a greater number of religious beliefs than is 
generallv found in a city of its size. Almost every known denomination of the 
Christian religion has its devotees, and nearly all of them have regular organ- 
izations. This is owing to the fact that the population of the city is cosmopoli- 
tan in its character, and has representatives from almost every civilized 
countr\- on the globe. 

There are three daily newspapers and about sixty weekly and monthly 
periodicals published in the city. 

There are a number of business, social, educational, literary and musical 
clubs in the city. The leading business men's associations are the Seattle 
Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle Merchants' Association and the Manu- 
facturers' Association. The leading social clubs are the Rainier Club, the 
University Club, the Seattle Athletic Club, the Arctic Club, the Firloch Club, 
the Golf and Countrv Club, and the Countrv Club. 



THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 




Hotel Savoy, Seattle, Wash. 



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364 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 

The Piiget Sound Navy Yard is located just across the Sound from Seattle, 
and its supplies are purchased here. The expenditures for supplies exceed 
$100,000 per month. It has the only government drydock on the Pacific Coast 
large enough to dock a battleship, and construction of a much larger one to 
cost $2,000,000 is already under way. The yard gives employment to from 700 
to 1,500 mechanics and is growing in importance yearly. 

Fort Lawton, a United States military post, is situated within the city 
Hmits. The site embraces 605 acres, donated to the government by the people 
of Seattle, making a beautiful park and drill ground. The garrison now con- 
sists of four companies of infantry, and will be increased in the near future to 
a full regimental post of twelve companies. 

The United States Assay Office at Seattle was established July 15. 1898, 
and up to December 31, 1908, had received and paid for gold dust in the \alue 
of $175,264,603.93. This represents 10,264,068.19 troy ounces, or 351.8 avoir- 
dupois tons. 

Tuesday forenoon it is a go-as-you-please, but at 1 :30 we go to the 
Colman dock and board the "H. B. Kennedy" to visit the Bremerton Navy 
Yard. We enjoy a very pleasant ride on the Sound, and several interesting 
hours we spend in looking over the gunboat "Washington" in (lr\-(lock, and 
the other war giants in the harbor. We are duly impressed with the size 
and importance of this fast growing Pacific naval station, and likewise with 
the way that the vantage points around this deep and large sound are 
protected against invasion by an enemy. We return shortly after 5 o'clock, 
and after dinner we get into our glad clothes once more and attend a very 
pleasant reception and ball tendered by the Washington Annex Hotel, where 
we say some final farewells to members of our Northwest delegation, for 
some go eastward over the Northern Pacific, while some thirt\' of us will 
go to Victoria and homeward via the Canadian Pacific. 

Seattle is a great city. It is built on a series of hills overlooking Elliott 
Bay, one of the land-locked arms of Puget Sound. It is a typical western 
city of western energy and rapid growth. Since the Klondike discoveries 
in the Northwest Territory, the later gold discoveries in Alaska and the 
beginning of the development of Puget Sound trade with the Orient, Seattle 
has gone forward by leaps and bounds, until from a population of 43,000 in 
1890 it has grown to a city of 241,550 at the present time. 

Like many of the localities in the Northwest, and particularly in the 
State of Washington, Seattle's name is of Indian origin. It was given in 
honor of old Chief Seattle, or Sealth, as it is sometimes written. The old 
chief was a respected friend of the whites, even when others of the natives 
counselled hostilities. 

But that is only a memory now. Seattle is one of America's really great 
and progressive cities. Its tall buildings of modern type, its well paved 
streets, its public utilities, its beautiful parks and its metropolitan hotels 
served to convince many of the eastern visitors that the United States is by 
no means composed of the territory lying east of the Mississippi River. 



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THE NEW YORK DELEGATION 

From the account written by Mr. Gehring, editor of the "New York Hotel 
Review," I extract the following: 

For three weeks the H. M. M. B. A. trains liad been moving in a 
westerly direction. On the night of April 21st, however, the Easterners 
began their homeward journey. This was by no means uninteresting. On 
the contrary, there was no haste, and every point along the route that was 
worth \isiting was made the occasion for a stop, if only for a few moments. 

At Salt Lake City the party was met at the station by a delegation of 
hotelmen and a committee representing the Commercial Club. Many 
enjoyed a trip to Salt Air Beach, while all the party afterwards visited the 
Mormon Tabernacle, where an organ recital was given by Professor Mc- 
Clellan. F'ollowing the regular recital the professor, as a special courtesy 
to Mr. McCann, invited the New York delegation to the choir enclosure, 
where another special recital on the world-famous organ was given. A tour 
of the city under the guidance of the Mayor pleasantly filled in another hour 
or two. Then, conducted by Proprietor Holmes, of the Knutsford, the 
Eastern delegation inspected the new Hotel Semloh, which was opened 
that day. The party was entertained at luncheon at the Commercial Club, 
where brief addresses were made by members of the club and responded 
to by Mr. Tierney. 

In the State of Colorado 

The New York Society of Colorado, headed by Samuel F'. Dutt(_)n, of the 
Hotel Albany, met the New York train at Salida. Accompanying Mr. 
Dutton was his pretty daughter, who distributed flowers to the ladies of the 
party, and then the original Sam, with his usual thoughtfulness, had brought 
with him a trunk loaded with newspapers from the home towns of the trav- 
elers as well as the representative hotel journals, and the mail which had 
been forwarded to the Albany for members of the party. That Dutton 
Denver spirit put renewed energv into the party, and his associates on the 
receiving committee, Messrs. French, W arner, Nichols and Dunning, \vere 
no less considerate of the comforts of their erstwhile guests. 

Lea\-ing Salida the part}- headed for the Royal Gorge, leaving the train 
on the swinging bridge for a photograph which is elsewhere reproduced. 
An unexpected feature was added to the itinerary. It was a stop at Canyon 
Citv and included there an automobile ride over Skyline Drive, from which 
the panorama was the most beautiful which it has been the writer's pleasure 
to look upon. Returning from the drive the party sat down to a banquet 
at the lioard of Manager Denton, of the Hotel Denton. After coffee the 
partv was enlightened further on the great opportunities in Colorado and 
Canyon City by ex-Governor Peabody and a number of other prominen-; 
citizens. Brief responses were delivered by Mr. Tierney, Mr. Reed, Mr 
McGlvnn I maiilen speech), Mr. Dutton. Mr. Iteming, and Mr. Gehring. 



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THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A. 




SAM F. DUTTON. 

Proprietor Albany Hotel. Denver, Colo.; President American Hotel Protective Association of 

the United States and Canada. 



S. F. Dutton, proprietor of the Albany, was 
born in Chautauqua county, New York, in 
1872. At the age of 12 years he began work 
as bell hop to various hotels on Chautauqua 
Lake, his first employer being Mr. Horace Fox, 
of the old Chautauqua Hotel. Mayville. N. Y. 

In 1888 he went to Eureka Springs, Ark., re- 
maining until 1892. when he became assistant 
steward of the Clifton House in Chicago. In 
1893 he went to Denver with Col. J. D. Fan- 
ning, at the time he took the Albany Hotel. 
In turn he was storeroom man, steward, assist- 
ant manager, and manager, remaining until 
1S99, when he became superintendent of dining 



cars and eating houses on the Santa Fe road. 
In IJOo he returned to Denver and formed the 
Albany Hotel Co. 

He is identified with nearly all the commer- 
cial bodies of Denver; for two years president 
of the Denver Hotel and Restaurant Men's 
Association; four years president of the Rocky 
Mountain Hotel Glen's Association; wa.s one of 
the organizers and the first president of the 
"Western Hotel Men's Protective Association, 
and in August last was elected president of 
the American Hotel Protective Association of 
the United States and Canada. 



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On to Denver ! 

And now on to Denver, where the arch of "welcome" was flanked on 
each side by antomobiles, with "Sam" Dntton personally singing out "This 
way to the Albany!" on one side, and "Mel" Wright sounding "This way 
to the Adams !" on the other side. The evening was a "go as you please," 
and we did. Some harrowing tales resulted, but they can not be printed. 

Next morning another delightful automobile tour all over the city, its 
parks and points of interest, including the auditorium where Bryan was 
nominated, v.-as the program, followed by a "get-away" luncheon at the 
Albany, which had all the Dutton Denver spirit for which his name is 
famous. Mr. Dutton's energy attracted the admiration of every one, and 
his anxiety to outdo our hosts en route was shared by every member of 
the staff from Mr. Paget down. Everybody enjoyed Denver immensely — 
because it "felt" like New York, looked like New York, had a New York 
"boy" at the helm and we are approaching New York. The luncheon was 
delightfully served. 

The Albany Hotel, Denver, Colo. 

The Albany Hotel was operated by different ]5roprietors for several years, 
and had a rather checkered career, until Sam Dutton, in 1904, organized a 
company called The New Albany Hotel Company, and leased the hotel for a 
period of 15 years. The hotel was remodeled and modernized. $185,000 
being spent in this work. The business was so successful that it was only a 
year and a half before an addition larger than the original hotel was added, 
which was opened in 1906, giving 300 rooms, one-half of which have baths. 
The .\lbanv has become noted on account of the superiority of its five cafes 
and its well-a]ipointed, well-lighted sample rooms. The Albany connnands 
at least 70 per cent of the commercial trade coming to Denver — all of it, in 
fact, where up-to-date sample rooms are required. 

In the year of 1909, another $72,000 was spent in improvements and in 
new furniture, all the rooms with bath now being furnished in a high-class 
manner. 

Remodeling of the dining-rooms was made at this time, as well as redec- 
orating and recarpeting the entire house. At the present time the rotunda 
is being remodeled and refurnished at a cost of $22,000, making it the most 
spacious and elegant hotel rotunda in Denver. 

The Albany, on account of its location and spacious ground floor facili- 
ties, has become known far and wide as the headcjuarters for politicians, 
mining men, irrigation men, and in fact for all business men coming to Denver 
from various points of the country, and the familiar saying in Colorado is — 
"Meet me at the Albany". Probably more banquets have been held at the 
Albany in the last three years than all the other hotels in Denver put together. 

]\Ir. F. W. Paget is the manager of the .\lbany. 

Card of Thanks 

As a token of their appreciation to all who had made their trip so 
pleasant and agreeable the New York delegation sent the following to all 
their various hosts : 



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To Our Hosts: 

Anidiigst so iiiiich to he grateful for. it would indeed be an invidious 
distinction to differentiate in the mention of hotel keepers and friends, who 
so enthusiastically and generously contributed toward the entertainment and 
comfort of the New York delegation of the H. M. M. B. A. members and 
their families, while en route on special train, to attend the thirty-first 
annual meeting of the association in Los Angeles, Cal., on April 12. 1910. 

No words can picture in adequate colorings the magnitude and cordiality 
of the lavish and unique hospitality that was dispensed to our party at ever)'' 
place we stopped. The welcome we received was as spontaneous as it was 
sincere, and it truly manifested the broad and liberal spirit of fraternity and 
good fellowship that prevails among hotel keepers all over our glorious land. 

As expressive of our genuine feelings of appreciation for all favors 
conferred by our legion of hosts everywhere, we therefore accept of this 
medium at this time to publicly acknowledge "our gratitude in behalf of the 
ninety-three men and women -who composed our delegation, and to give to 
our hosts the assurance that it shall be a great privilege and pleasure for 
each anrl every one of us to reciprocate for all their kindnesses whenever an 
occasion presents itself to do so in the future. 

^^'ith hearts full of golden thanksgiving, with minds full of joyous 
memories, we hereby extend to you. our hosts, the warmest considerations 
of atttction and loyalty, and all for the honor and glory of our beneficent 
association which we all love so well. Faithfully yours, 

FRED A. REED. 
EDWARD M. TIERNEY. 
New York, May 10. 1910. Committee. 

THE NEW ENGLAND DELEGATION 

The New Englanders did not stop at Salt Lake, though the invitation to 
do so was cordial and urgent. Hastening on to Denver, they were the first 
to be the recipients of the rare brands of Colorado hospitality. 

Manager Paget, Mrs. Dutton and Carl R. Evans did the honors. After 
a brief rest the party was shown Denver by the Cab and Omnibus Com- 
pany and treated to a complimentary dinner at the Albany. There was an 
address of welcome by C. W. Franklin, to which Capt. Harry L. Brown 
made fitting response. The Boston special left for Chicago at midnight 
on Monday with a tired but happy lot of passengers on board. 

It arrived in Chicago on the morning of April 26th. having come direct, 
without stops, from Denver. With the exception of Luke J. Minahan and 
half a dozen of his friends who were guests of the Blackstone, the party 
repaired to Hotel La Salle, where they opened headquarters in a suite ot 
parlors on the seventh floor and prepared for a day of go-as-you-please. 
Some went out calling on friends, others visited among the stores, while the 
majority devoted their time to seeing the sights. In the evening Mr. 



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The BlackFtone Hotel, Chicago, III. 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 371 

Minahan entertained his company at dinner served in one of the private 
dining rooms of the Blackstone, and it was a particularly nice spread. At 
midnight the tourists proceeded on their way homeward, declaring that next 
year Boston would show the Pacific coasters a thing or two. 

The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago 

The Blackstone is the last word that, so far, has been said in hotels. 
Designed by the well known architects, Marshall & Fox. it is a building of 
individuality. Being on the Lake Front, close to the very business heart of 
Chicago, it necessarily had to be of the sky-scraper type, but in all its details 
quiet elegance, refinement and culture are foremost and apparent. Mr. Willey 
of the "Hotel Monthly" well says what all experienced travelers will confirm, 
viz.: "I never before saw a hotel that comes so near the ideal, so near per- 
fection in all eye-pleasing, combined with serviceable qualities. It is a 
triumph of the decorators' and furnishers' arts." 

The Various Routes to California 

California is not now the isolated country it was in the "days of gold." 
One by one, railway and other routes have been opened until now the 
traveler has an extensive choice. The Southern Pacific Route from Chicago, 
by way of the Union Pacific, called the "Overland" Route, was the one first 
constructed, and is too well known to need description. The "Sunset" 
Route of the same company is the one followed and described in the chapter 
of the New York delegation, while that of the Santa Fe was followed by 
the New England and Chicago delegations. The remainder of this chapter 
is devoted to other routes which it is well for contemplative tourists to the 
Coast to remember: all demonstrating the great and rapid growth of the 
West, to demand the ever-enlarging facilities provided by these new avenues 
of travel. 

From New York to California, by Steamer to New Orleans 
and Thence by Rail 

There are several wa}s that one may reach California, but none more 
delightful, varied and charming than by the Atlantic Steamship Lines of 
the Southern Pacific Co. 1 have crossed the Atlantic and other bodies of 
water many times, I am accounted a wretchedly poor sailor, but I made the 
trip from New York to New Orleans in the steamer "Comus," and while 
squeamish for a few hours, I look back upon the trip as one of the most 
agreeable and delightful in my life. In the first place, the steamers are new, 
well built, and excellently appointed for passenger service. One feels per- 
fectly safe in them, even though he were to cross the Atlantic in the worst 
kind of weather, instead of merely sailing down past Cape Hatteras into 
the sea of perpetual summer. The next important consideration is the 
personnel of the officers and crew. We found them all, from captain to 
deck hand, bent on giving us a good time, and while, of course, the stewards 



372 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. U. A. 

didn't object to a tip, they gave their service with a whole-hearted readiness 
that made one anxious to hand out a tip rather larger than usual. For 
instance, I wanted a salt water bath every morning — and got it, though' 
when one enters the Mississippi River there is no salt water. Mj^ steward 
said he would arrange it if I would get up a little earlier. He would have 
the bathtub filled while out in the bay and keep it readv for me. And he 
did so, to my great pleasure and comfort. 

A third comfort is that all the passengers' rooms are outside rooms, so 
that one is never without an outlook over the sea. Baggage can be checked 
through to the Pacific Coast or any intervening point, and vet part of it 
kept in your cabin for use while on the steamer. 

Mark Twain well describes the scene on leaving port : "All was bustle 
and confusion (I have seen that remark before, somewhere). The pier 
was crowded with carriages and men ; passengers were arriving and hurry- 
ing on board ; the vessel's decks were encumbered with trunks and valises ; 
groups of excursionists arrayed in attractive traveling costumes, etc. 
Finally, above the banging, and rumbling, and shouting, and hissing of 
steam, rang the order to 'Cast off!' — a sudden rush to the gangways — a 
scampering ashore of visitors — a few revolutions of the screws, and we 
were off." 

The trip down the river to Sandy Hook is always interesting. Man- 
hattan slowly seems to spread out and form a picture, with, as we pass the 
Battery, a glimpse of Brooklyn and the East River, with the three great 
suspension bridges connecting the two boroughs. Past Governor's Island, 
Bedloe's and the Statue of Liberty, the green slopes of Staten Island ami 
then Coney Island came into view, with Sandy Hook on the other side. 

Soon we are out in the wide Atlantic, and as night comes on, the shores 
recede, and we practically lose sight of land until two days later we glimpse 
it again in palm-covered Florida. But the sea is interesting in a thousand 
ways, day and night, and especially when one knows he is going to be out 
upon it, in its lone vastness, only for two or three days. 

The temperature steadily rises as we approach the Straits of Florida, and 
from the time one catches his first view of the low-lying shore of this State 
of semi-tropical verdure, until he reaches New Orleans there is not a 
moment when he is not interested, charmed, attracted, fascinated. The 
water is a rich sapphire, and as the vessel pushes its way along it leaves a 
froth of purest white, which hisses and crackles, as if full of life and elec- 
tricity. To this day the memory of that exquisite colored water remains 
with me. Then we see the Fowey Rocks lighthouse, an openwork steel 
tower, many of which dot the outer line of the Florida Keys. For a whole 
day one watches these picturesque little coral islets and counts the light- 
houses. Then he sees the concrete arches of the wonderful railway to Key 
West, which reaches across these stretches of sea, from key to key. It is 
night when the vessel turns the westernmost of the Florida Keys and 
makes a great plunge into the Gulf of Mexico, aiming straight across it to 



TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 373 

the mouth of the Mississippi. There the pilot takes us in hand, and we 
have that dehghtfully fascinating ride of the "Father of the Waters" to 
New Orleans, sitting on deck and noting all the places of historic interest 
and of picturesque beauty as we ride along. 

And New Orleans is a charming city — historic, quaint, peculiar, pro- 
gressive. It has hotels equal to any in the country, and its water, sewerage 
and drainage system, recently completed, is the finest in the known world. 
One ought alwaj'S to arrange to spend a week in New Orleans before 
starting on west. 

The rest of the journey from New Orleans by rail, with the oil-burning 
locomotives, and consequently no cinders, no dust, no uncleanliness and no 
annoyance over the Southern Pacific Company's "open-window" route — as 
their "Sunset" route might not unappropriately be termed — is the same as 
that described in the chapter on the journey of the New York delegation. 
For, while that delegation did not come down by steamer to New Orleans, 
they did take the Southern Pacific's route at that city, and thence continued 
through to California. It is a wonderful tribute to the building energy of 
Collis P. Huntington, the genius of the Southern Pacific Railway, that, in 
his lifetime, he succeeded in building a railway from New Orleans, through 
to California, then practically traversing the complete 1,000 miles of length 
of that State, traversed Oregon to Portland. The lines of the Southern 
Pacific now extend to Seattle, Wash., thus giving this companv a direct line 
from New Orleans to Seattle. 

The Western Pacific Railway 

The completion of a new line to the Pacific Coast is a great event in the 
history of railroading and worthy the notice of the reading and traveling 
world. On August 22. 1910, the first passenger train was run over the 
Western Pacific Ry.. which is the western extension of the Gould Lines 
Irom Salt Lake City, thus giving that s3-stem a continuous line from 
Pittsburg and Detroit to the Pacific Coast. This new railway is 927 miles 
in length from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, the most western four miles 
being the ferry across the Bay of San Francisco from the Oakland Mole. 
LTnlike the Central Pacific, which has two roads from Ogden to Lucin, the 
one rounding Salt Lake at the north, and the other crossing it directly by 
the world-famed "Lucin cut-oft," the ^^'estern Pacific rounds the southern 
end of the lake, and practically reaches the Central line at Wells, paralleling 
it fairly closely until well past Winnemucca, where it keeps almost due 
west, while the Central bears to the south. The passage of the Sierras is 
made through Beckwourth Pass, discovered in the early pioneer days by 
that picturesque and renegade scout, Indian chief, bear hunter. Indian trader, 
scalawag, and all-around liar, Jim Beckwourth, one of the most noted 
frontiersmen of "the days of "49." On the western side of the Sierras the 
road makes a quick sweep to the south, from Las Plumas via C)roville, 
Marysville and Sacramento to Stockton, where it sweeps again to the west 
and reaches Oakland \ia Xiles Canvon. 



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TO CALIFORNIA AXD THE PACIFIC COAST 375 

Naturally it opens up some picturesque passes hitherto untouched by 
railways, and will therefore attract the curious and interested sightseer. 
1 he \\'estern Pacific is now in the field for freight and passenger business. 
Naturally its eastern connections will bring it much of both, but the great 
tfst is the quality of the service it renders. Its officers are experienced 
railway men in exery department, and there is little doubt but that they 
will not only win their share of existing traffic, but will materially aid in 
the further upbuilding of our great Pacific empire. 

The Salt Lake, San Pedro and Los Angeles Railway 

Leaving Salt Lake City, the leading metropolis of the intermountain 
country, trains of the Salt Lake Route (the scenic short line to Southern 
California), give the traveler a final view of the Tabernacle and the Mormon 
Temple, famous as architectural triumphs, and monuments to one of the 
greatest religious movements known to history. 

Set in a bowl of mountains painted with all the hues of the rainbow, 
Salt Lake is one of the scenic cities of the American continent. 

Leaving it, the passenger over the Salt Lake Route passes along the 
Great Salt Lake, a vast inland sea whose presence has never been explained, 
and whose wonders have never half been told. 

Rolling on. the train draws up in the early morning at Caliente, having 
crossed the great State of Utah and a part of Nevada during the hours of 
darkness. Caliente is a Spanish word, meaning "hot," and is so named on 
account of the hot springs found there, which have been known since the 
earliest Indian days. 

Leaving Caliente behind, the wanderer westward bound is borne at once 
into the gorges of the desert mountains. Myriad-hued buttes rise on every 
side; on every hand great gashes sear their way back into the heart of a 
wilderness of hills more beautiful than the famed "Bad Lands" of Wyoming. 

Somber grays and browns of lower slopes give way to blues and greens 
and reds and yellows on the upper shelves of the buttes. until all finally 
merge in the most gorgeous of all the panoramas on the way westward — 
Rainbow Canyon. 

Out of this canyon the train rolls down into the rich Las Vegas \^alley, 
first settled more than a hundred years ago by the Spanish padres. Las 
Vegas also is a Spanish word, meaning "The Meadows," and from here the 
Las \'egas and Tonopah railroad leads of? to the great mining districts of 
Rhyolite, Beatt}-, Goldfield and contiguous territory. 

Then again onward the train speeds toward the mountain wall which 
cuts off the sea-coast and its beautiful cities. The barricade of peaks, the 
Sierra Madre of the old Spaniards, seems a solid chain ; there appears no 
break in its desert face, until after Barstow has been passed. 

Then, suddenly falling a])art — for so it seems — the mountains open a path 
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TO CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 377 

Spanish word, "Cajon," meaning "box," so named because of the fact that 
from either of its entrances the pass appears to have no end, to be a \eritable 
box in the mountains. 

Through the Cajon, rising to the summit and then dropping away by a 
rapid descent, the train flies to the Land of Oranges, welcomed through the 
gateway by that strange mark of the mountains, the Arrowhead. 

On the left there flashes suddenly into view a huge arrowhead, over 
thirteen hundred feet long and proportionately wide, carved by the hand of 
nature on the face of the mountain wall. 

Heavy with Indian and white men's legends is this arrowhead ; from it 
the famous Arrowhead Hot Springs, near by, were named, and from it the 
Salt Lake Route took its equally famous trademark. Clear and distinct, 
regular in outline as if carved with some Titan's chisel, this strange land- 
mark has been a puzzle to geologists, a riddle to which they have found no 
acceptable answer. How it came there, or when, no man knows. 

Below the arrowhead, under the shelter of its protecting blade, lies San 
Bernardino, terminus of the first Mormon trail from Salt Lake City to Cali- 
fornia and now a thriving modern city. At San Bernardino begins the 
orange belt of the Golden State. Near it lies the beautiful city of Redlands, 
and just below, on the sloping shoulder of the Sierra Madre range, the Salt 
Lake train passes through Riverside, the center of probably the most famous 
orange section in the world and a beautiful city of flower-embowered homes. 

There is Rubidoux mountain, crowned with a huge cross, raised to honor 
Padre Junipera Serra, and miles-long drives lined with palms, such drives as 
can be seen nowhere else in the world outside the tropics. 

From Riverside the Salt Lake Route passes through Ontario and Pamona 
and the fruitful San Gabriel Valley and finally sets down the traveler in Los 
Angeles, the metropolis of Southern California. Long Beach, the .\tlantic 
City of the West, is twenty miles from Los Angeles on the direct line to 
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